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Japan FTC Warns Asahi Breweries against Sales-Promotion Money Discrepancies.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, December, 2003
Kyodo News International, Tokyo Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Dec. 8--TOKYO--The Fair Trade Commission (FTC) on Monday warned Asahi Breweries Ltd. over its practice of treating liquor retailers in the same business area differently, saying this violates the Antimonopoly Law.
According to the trade watchdog, Asahi paid higher sales promotion money to a retail company in southern Osaka than to two other companies, although all three operate in the same area and have the same monthly sales of about 10,000 cases of Asahi beer and "happoshu" low-malt beer.
One case contains 24 350-milliliter cans of beer.
Asahi paid 150 yen per case in promotion money to the first company but only 20 yen to 30 yen to the other two, giving the...
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