date:Apr 23, 2012
The Associated Wholesale Grocer (AWG), a retailer-owned cooperative that supplies retail member stores, brought theactionin the District Court in Kansas through law firm Stueve Siegel Hanson LPP.
Hersheyet al.are already defendants in an on-going class action law suit in Pennsylvania Federal Court, which consolidates around 80 separate cases alleging price fixing.
The allegation
AWG alleges that Hershey, Nestle, Mars and Cadbury worked together to artificially rise the price of chocolate on thre