Bury based D Sports has said that it has been fined about £1.5 million pounds by the competition regulator after an investigation into retail prices of certain branded clothing products of the Rangers Football Club was completed.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) had in June provisionally found that JD Sports, Britain’s biggest sportswear retailer, and rival Elite Sports had colluded to fix the retail prices of a number of Rangers-branded replica kits and other clothing products.
Elite Sports has been fined £459,000 and Rangers £225,000 over the same offence.
The Competition and Markets Authority has found that Elite Sports and JD Sports broke competition law by fixing the retail prices of a number of Rangers-branded replica kits and other clothing products from September 2018 until July 2019.
Rangers FC also took part in the collusion but only to the extent of fixing the retail price of adult home short-sleeved replica shirts from September 2018 to mid-November 2018. All 3 firms colluded to stop JD Sports undercutting the retail price of the shirt on Elite’s Gers Online store.
