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Company: Hormel Foods Corporation
Current Parent Company: Hormel Foods
Penalty: $4,856,000
Year: 2024
Date: October 3, 2024
Offense Group: competition-related offenses
Primary Offense: price-fixing or anti-competitive practices
Mega-Scandal: Price Fixing
Violation Description: Hormel agreed to pay nearly $5 million to direct purchaser plaintiffs to settle pork price-fixing litigation.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: private litigation
Court: District of Minnesota
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Case ID: 0:18-cv-01776
Case Name: In Re Pork Antitrust Litigation
Private Lawsuit Resolution Type: settlement
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: Minnesota
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: food products
Specific Industry of Current Parent: meatpacking
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