Following complaints brought to the Autorité de la concurrence by Douwe Egberts Master Blenders (DEMB) and the Ethical Coffee Company, Nespresso has offered a number of commitments to the authority to remove barriers to entry for the capsules of other manufacturers designed to be used with Nespresso coffee machines. The offer follows a finding by the authority that Nespresso appeared likely to have abused a dominant position by tying the purchase of its capsules to coffee machines through a number of technical, legal and commercial means.
The CRA team advising DEMB on market definition issues included Diana Jackson, Matt Tavantzis and Gerhard Dijkstra.
Data sharing in hybrid marketplaces with endogenous fee setting
The issue is especially timely given provisions in the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) designed to expand access to data held by large digital platforms. The...