Le Figaro ad in its Monday edition Intermarche received two subpoenas from Bercy after the sign in 2014 demanded guarantees margins from food manufacturers with which it negotiates eagerly every year prices of consumer products.
“There has two assignments which we are subjected by the DGCCRF,” said Monday a spokesman for the brand. “The case is ongoing, so we do not wish to make further comments,” she added.
The company faces up to 2 million euro fine
According to the BBC, “the central purchasing Intermarché have asked a written guarantee margin equivalent to 3.5% of turnover, sales with each industry. ” This illegal clause provided insurance for Intermarket garner the same level of profit, even if he had to lower its prices to respond to the aggressive pricing of Leclerc, Carrefour, Auchan and Giant.
Also in the second assignment, the DGCCRF criticizes Intermarché buyers have required its suppliers’ price cuts without offering them the counterparties (commitments on volumes purchased, promotions …) or registered in illegal contracts clauses (return basis, ex deductions, late penalties …), “says the daily. A first meeting is already scheduled for mid-May to the DGCCRF to allow Intermarché to explain. Intermarket faces up to 2 million euro fine. Bercy side, the Minister of Economy, Emmanuel Macron, also confirmed Monday that procedures were underway, without wishing to comment on the merits of the case.
Michel-Edouard Leclerc: “The supermarkets not cause”
When asked by RTL on Monday morning on the subject, Michel-Edouard Leclerc does not include the 12 000 businesses , farmers and industrialists grouped in the French food industry that for “most have no reason to complain. Prices in France are barely within the European average. All this is a response to a conviction for many of them to agreement, such as the cartel yogurt entubait that French consumers. “
Michel-Edouard Leclerc even believe that the French distribution is the one who buys the most national and dearest: “We buy more expensive than most European distributors. French retailers better pay their farmers even if it is not enough. “
VIDEO. Michel-Edouard Leclerc denounced the “price increase proposed by the food industry”
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