Competition record
Exide
Deep profile · 1 linked library matter
Exide makes lead-acid batteries for cars and other vehicles. The EU car-battery cartel records the company as fined.
Overview
Exide manufactures lead-acid batteries, the starter batteries under the hood of conventional cars and a range of industrial batteries built on the same chemistry. Carmakers buy them for new vehicles. Parts stores and garages buy them as replacements.
The European Commission found that car-battery makers coordinated prices on those batteries. Exide is a fined party in the library's EU car-battery file. The conduct was agreement among manufacturers on the prices quoted to vehicle makers and to the aftermarket, not a case about scrap lead.
The library status is fined. This profile does not state Exide's fine or the decision total. The scrap-battery purchase cartel, where Johnson Controls received immunity, is a different matter.
Competition footprint
Starter batteries are a high-volume part, sold both to car factories and to repair shops.
Coordinated quotes raise the price the carmaker or the parts chain pays.
The recorded status is fined, with no euro amount in this profile.
Consumer & business angle
Car manufacturers and drivers replacing a battery were the buyers of the finished product.
Other lead-acid battery makers were the rivals in the price coordination.
What to watch
- Damages claims by carmakers and aftermarket buyers of starter batteries.
- The separate scrap-purchase case, so a reader does not treat Exide's file as the immunity case.
Markets
lead-acid batteries · automotive batteries · aftermarket car parts
Also known as: exide technologies, exide