$500M Loblaw price-fixing settlement is Canada’s largest antitrust payout, say law firms

By John Schofield ( July 25, 2024, 4:43 PM EDT) -- In what the law firms involved are calling the largest antitrust settlement in Canadian history, Loblaw Companies Ltd. and George Weston Ltd. have agreed to pay $404 million to settle a long-running class action lawsuit over the companies’ involvement in a bread price-fixing scheme that stretched from 2001 to 2015....