Apple fined record €1.1bn by French competition regulator

Tech giant conspired with wholesalers Tech Data and Ingram Micro to align prices, says watchdog

Apple has been fined a record a1.1bn (990m) by antitrust regulators in France for engaging in anti-competitive agreements with two wholesalers. The penalty imposed on the US tech giant is the largest ever handed out to a company by the Autoriti(C) de la Concurrence.

Commenting on the move, Isabelle de Silva, head of the French competition watchdog, said: "Apple and its two wholesalers agreed to not compete against each other and prevent resellers from promoting competition between each other, thus sterilising the wholesale market for Apple products."