Talk:Connectedness/@comment-4074242-20150105124524

A reader has supplied me with this further story on consumers being stitched up:

http://www.news.com.au/national/how-a-cartel-involving-colgatepalmolive-cussons-and-unilever-began-over-laundry-powder/story-e6frfkp9-1226781937903

Decmber 2013

"But a decision by Unilever to come clean over the alleged cartel now leaves its competitors and others facing fines of up to $100 million. In Federal Court action filed in Sydney, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission claims Colgate, Cussons and Unilever conspired to stop supplying standard concentrate in early 2009 and "simultaneously transition" Cold Power, Radiant and Omo respectively, to ultra concentrates. The ACCC alleges the trio agreed to sell their super-strength powders for the "same price per wash as the equivalent standard concentrated products and not pass on the cost savings to consumers"