Philips

Philips is the Dutch company households knew for televisions, lighting, and small appliances. In the tube era it also supplied the cathode-ray tubes other manufacturers built into sets and monitors. Part of that supply sat in a tube venture with LG. The cartel file is about those tubes. Philips' later shift toward health technology is a different business from the one the 2012 decision describes.

The Commission found price fixing and market sharing, carried out in part through meetings the participants called green meetings. Philips is in that decision with LG, Panasonic, and other tube makers. Sharing a venture with LG did not make Philips a bystander. The company is named because of the tube business.

About €1.47 billion is the total, not a Philips-only fine. This profile does not invent a split. Set makers paid for tubes. Viewers and office buyers paid for the finished screen.

Philips' exposure is the television and monitor tube business, including the venture with LG.

Green meetings coordinated prices and customers among rival tube suppliers.

The 2012 cartel total is about €1.47 billion, recorded here without a company allocation.

European set makers buying tubes from Philips, or from the Philips-LG venture, were purchasing a cartelized component.

A household with a Philips television was downstream, and so was a household whose set used a Philips tube under another brand.