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Aldi Sues Pork Packers

02/04/2022

Aldi, the deep-discount supermarket chain has filed a lawsuit in the Northern District of Illinois alleging price-fixing by major pork packers.  Defendants include Hormel Foods, Seaboard Foods, Smithfield Foods, Triumph Foods and Tyson Foods and AgriStats™.  JBS is not a party to the litigation as the Company settled with various plaintiffs for more than $50 million during 2021.

 

As with previous lawsuits, Aldi alleges that defendants engaged in an "illegal conspiracy" that escalated prices for pork from 2009 onwards.  Aldi joins other major national chains including Kroger and many restaurant operators.  Central to the claim of collusion is the fact that the various companies named in the lawsuit were subscribers to the AgriStats™ benchmark system.


 
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