https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed As Germans slowly fall out of love with their lager, brewers have felt the pinch. Now the Federal Cartel Office has caught them fixing prices with supermarkets and has thrown the book at them. https://www.thelocal.de/20160510/supermarkets-fined-millions-in-beer-price-fixing-scandal Tue, 10 May 2016 12:12:19 +0200 supermarkets-fined-millions-in-beer-price-fixing-scandal German beer sales have sunk to their lowest level since reunification almost 25 years ago, as drinkers increasingly turn to mixed drinks and non-alcoholic beers. https://www.thelocal.de/20140130/german-beer-production-sinks-to-25-year-low Thu, 30 Jan 2014 10:56:00 +0100 german-beer-production-sinks-to-25-year-low Beer prices in Germany are set to rise, as a €106.5 million fine on brewers for price fixing is passed onto consumers. https://www.thelocal.de/20140120/german-beer-prices-to-rise-on-back-of-cartel-fixing-fines Mon, 20 Jan 2014 10:15:00 +0100 german-beer-prices-to-rise-on-back-of-cartel-fixing-fines UPDATE: Germany fined some of its biggest breweries €106.5 million on Monday for price fixing - after Becks brewer Anheuser-Busch struck a deal to get off in return for information on its competitors. https://www.thelocal.de/20140113/german-brewers-find-106-million-over-price-fixing Mon, 13 Jan 2014 13:50:00 +0100 german-brewers-find-106-million-over-price-fixing Germany's breweries have allegedly been conspiring to fix beer prices for the past 20 years in a scandal more widespread than initially thought, a report has revealed. They could now face hundreds of millions of euros in fines. https://www.thelocal.de/20130821/51505 Wed, 21 Aug 2013 11:25:00 +0200 51505 Several potato processing plants in Germany are being investigated on the suspicion of illegally fixing prices for more than a decade, costing consumers and farmers more than €100 million. https://www.thelocal.de/20130511/49645 Sat, 11 May 2013 11:47:00 +0200 49645 Competition regulators are investigating more than a dozen large German breweries suspected of illegally fixing prices on popular beers such as Jever, Becks, Warsteiner and Erdinger, it emerged over the weekend. https://www.thelocal.de/20130323/48713 Sat, 23 Mar 2013 11:37:00 +0100 48713 A new report from the Federal Cartel Office (FCO) has concluded that German motorists pay too much for their fuel. https://www.thelocal.de/20110522/35181 Sun, 22 May 2011 16:35:00 +0200 35181 Coffee lovers have been overpaying in Germany, the competition watchdog announced this week as it slapped fines totalling €159.5 million on three of the country’s biggest coffee makers, Tchibo, Melitta and Dallmayr. https://www.thelocal.de/20091222/24107 Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:33:00 +0100 24107