Dropping The Mic!: Turkish Competition Authority Published Final FMCG Sector Inquiry Report

In Turkey, the fast-moving consumer goods ("FMCG") retail sector frequently finds itself at the focus of political and economic debates shaped by price increases. Thus, the Turkish Competition Authority ("TCA") frequently monitors the market dynamics and competitive framework of the FMCG sector.

The FMCG sector has been under the spotlight of the TCA since the Covid19 pandemic with hub-and-spoke cartel investigations¹. Indeed, in 2021, the TCA found five grocery retailers, namely BIM, CarrefourSA, Migros, Sok, and A101, and their common cooking oil supplier Savola liable for the hub-and-spoke cartel and imposed a record-breaking administrative fine². Afterward, at the end of 2022, the TCA made its second hub-and-spoke cartel decision concerning the same grocery retailers and their common suppliers, namely Coca-Cola, Doğanay, Düzey, Eti, Frito-Lay, GlaxoSmithKline, Haribo, Pasifik, Pepsi, Red Bull, Şölen Çikolata, and Uno, and found that these undertakings