Competition Authority of Kenya bars beer distributors from fixing prices

Wang’ombe Kariuki (left) and Francis Wangusi of Communications Authority of Kenya. Beer distributors have been barred from setting the selling prices as the move is un-competitive and amounts to ‘price-fixing’. (PHOTO: COURTESY)

Beer distributors have been barred from setting the selling prices as the move is un-competitive and amounts to ‘price-fixing’.

Competition Authority of Kenya (CAK) Director General Mr Wang’ombe Kariuki said the distributors cannot sit to discuss the pricing of the beverages they handle. “We cannot allow the distributors to sit and agree on a price,” Mr Wang’ombe said at the close of a three-day training workshop for journalists.