The companies fixed prices, shared markets, restricted output and allocated customers between themselves, on a worldwide basis.
The European Commission said the companies "may have allocated customers and agreed on supply quotas and prices" for car glass products.
The EC said it has evidence that competitors agreed on prices, exchanged commercially sensitive information and allocated customers to the cartel in the mid-1990s.
The indictment says the company, based in Osaka, Japan, and co-conspirators set the prices and allocated customers from 1991 to 1998, the Justice Department said.
"entered into a contract, combination or conspiracy to prevent competitive entry in their respective local telephone and/or high speed internet services markets and have agreed not to compete with one another and otherwise allocated customers and markets to one another". Amended Complaint in No. 02 CIV.
On the other hand, I surely would not have dismissed the complaint without requiring the defendants to answer the charge that they "have agreed not to compete with one another and otherwise allocated customers and markets to one another".12 51, App.
Constraint (2) identifies the maximum time between the distribution centers and their allocated customers at levels between the distribution centers and customers.
Moreover, it determines routing decisions, such as determination of vehicles' routes starting from an opened distribution center to serve its allocated customers and returning to that distribution center.
In this work, algorithms are designed to allocate customer demands to the distribution centers (DCs) in the supply chain network.
The problem of locating facilities and allocating customers covers the core topics of distribution system design.
The upper level formulation allocates customers to depots under the constraints of depot capacities and customer demands, while the lower level determines the optimal path for each group of depots and customers.
