French Antitrust Authority Fines Greenweez (Carrefour Group)
The French Competition Authority has sanctioned the National Union of Specialized Organic Product Distributors (Synadis Bio), along with Greenweez (Carrefour), Les Comptoirs de la Bio (Les Mousquetaires Group), and ITM Entreprises (ITME).
The regulator stated that these entities participated in a "single, complex, and continuous cartel aimed at allocating organic food brands between specialized organic retailers and generalist or conventional mass-market retailers."
This anticompetitive agreement lasted over seven years, occurring during a period of rapid expansion for organic products within large-scale food retailers (GSA), which became the primary distribution channel for such goods in 2016.
In addition to the trade union, the Authority found that Greenweez, Les Comptoirs de la Bio, and ITM Entreprises were active participants in these practices.
Consequently, the Authority has imposed total fines of 12,670,000 euros, broken down as follows: 10 million euros for Synadis Bio; 1.85 million euros for Greenweez (jointly and severally with its parent company Carrefour); 740,000 euros for ITM Entreprises (jointly and severally with its parent company Les Mousquetaires); and 80,000 euros for Les Comptoirs de la Bio.
Carrefour is the No. 1 distribution group in Europe and No. 2 in the world. The group's activity is organized into 3 types of stores:
- hypermarkets: at the end of 2025, owns 1,189 stores under the Carrefour and Atacadão names;
- supermarkets: owns 4,107 stores under the Carrefour Market name;
- other : operates a network of 9,563 local stores (Carrefour Express, Carrefour City, Carrefour Contact, So.Bio, etc. names), 663 Cash & Carry stores, 197 stores (Soft discount and Sam's Club), as well as e-commerce sites (Carrefour, Ooshop, etc.).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: France (50.9%), Europe (24.2%) and Latin America (24.9%).
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