Label Stock Vendors Under Investigation

Marketplace Dominance

In a complaint filed in the Northern District of Illinois the DOJ alleges that UPM and Avery were in "positions of marketplace dominance and had significant incentives to engage in explicit competitive coordination," and that evidence of competitive coordination was enhanced by a "long-standing strategic paper supply relationship" between UPM and Avery, which "provided UPM and Avery with the motivations, opportunities and means to coordinate on price, monitor adherence, punish cheating and engage in side payments that could be hidden in label paper transactions."