Autobutler ApS ("Autobutler"), an online platform that
allows car owners to obtain offers for repair or maintenance
services from various repair shops, has been found to restrict
competition in the market for repair and maintenance of motor
vehicles by engaging in price-fixing agreements in at least nine
different cases with hundreds of repair shops. The conduct was
found to have taken place in the period from March 2016 to October
2021.
The investigation was initiated in January 2021 by the Danish
Competition and Consumer Authority ("DCCA") in response
to a consumer having received ten identical offers from individual
repair shops on Autobutler's platform.
Based on the evidence obtained during a dawn raid at Autobutler,
the DCCA concluded that Autobutler had entered into vertical,
bilateral agreements with the individual repair shops, ensuring
that individual garages would all offer identical prices for
certain types of repairs. The DCCA considered that these
