Assessment of anti-competitive effects of conditional multi-product discounts to mass-market retailers

Lear assisted one of the biggest non-food consumer products manufacturer in assessing the potential effects on competition of a programme of conditional multi-product discounts to mass-market retailers for personal care products. Lear’s analyses followed closely the EU Guidance for the assessment of exclusionary conduct with regard to the conditional and multi-product rebates in a product market where the undertaking is dominant (e.g. using the As Efficient Competitor test); Lear provided also an evaluation of the possible effects of tying in adjacent markets.