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Market watchdog fines LPG dealers for price fixing

Cooking gas cylinders at a trading centre in Nakuru town. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]

The Competition Authority of Kenya (CAK) has penalised a group of companies dealing in cooking gas for colluding to set prices.

The Energy Dealers Association, a lobby for medium-sized Liquified Petroleum Gas marketing firms, has paid Sh408,000 after its members came up with a formula to determine retail prices.

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