taking part in an illegal cartel<\/a> covering Great Britain.<\/p>\nThe companies agreed to fix or coordinate their prices, shared the market by allocating customers and regularly exchanged competitively sensitive information.<\/p>\n
These arrangements went on for nearly seven years and involved meetings, attended by senior executives from each of the firms. The CMA recorded a number of these meetings and used them as evidence when arriving at its final decision.<\/p>\n
Last year, Stanton Bonna Concrete Ltd and CPM Group Ltd, both accepted that they broke competition law. Accordingly, under the CMA\u2019s provisions for leniency and settlement processes, they have received reductions to their fines.<\/p>\n
Pre-cast concrete products, such as drainage pipes, are of crucial importance to large infrastructure projects and are often used in roads and railways or water management projects.<\/p>\n
Customers for these products include engineering and construction firms, utilities providers and local and national government. At the time of the infringement the firms were the leading players in the market.<\/p>\n
Andrea Coscelli, the CMA\u2019s chief executive, said: \u201cThese companies entered into illegal arrangements where they secretly shared out the market for important building products and agreed to keep prices artificially high.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is totally unacceptable as it cheats customers out of getting a good deal.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe CMA will not hesitate to issue appropriately large fines in these cases and we will continue to crack down on cartels in the construction sector and in other industries.\u201d<\/p>\n
The final fines for breaking competition law are:<\/h3>\n
\u00a37,474,745 (SBC)<\/p>\n
\u00a34,000,000 (CPM Group Limited)<\/p>\n
\u00a325,449,676 (FP McCann Limited)<\/p>\n
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