Exhibit 628 ยท Press release
Justice Department Requires Agri Stats to End Exchange of Competitively Sensitive Information Among Nation's Largest Meat Processors (Press Release 26-453)
When companies decide certain information is too sensitive to share with the broader market, but not too sensitive to share with their closest competitors, that is a significant red flag that competition is being harmed
Proposed settlement filed in D. Minn. with California, Minnesota, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Utah. If approved, Agri Stats must stop providing sales reports and non-public pricing information, stop reporting company- or facility-level production, cost and labor data, offer most other information to buyers on reasonable terms, and report to a court-approved monitor. The release says "As alleged in the complaint" the exchange reduced competition; the company's subsidiary Express Markets may continue its price reports.
- Source
- DOJ Antitrust Division and Office of the Attorney General
- Date
- 7 May 2026
- Quoted from
- Paragraph beginning "Agri Stats is a data-sharing and consulting company" (Acting Assistant Attorney General Omeed A. Assefi)
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-requires-agri-stats-end-exchange-competitively-sensitive-information
- Accessed
- 2026-11-09
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit