Lawsuits target ‘potato cartel’ enabled by price data aggregators

Frozen potato producers are the target of multiple new federal lawsuits alleging that companies have been coordinating their prices through third-party data providers to form a “potato cartel.” Companies including Cavendish Farms, McCain Foods, JRS, and Lamb Weston, as well as the National Potato Promotion Board, conspired “to raise, stabilize, fix [or] otherwise manipulate the…