News Corporation will pay $244 million to non-retailer consumer packaged goods firms to settle allegations that it established and maintained an illegal monopoly on in-store advertising promotions.
Just before opening arguments were set to begin Monday in Southern District Judge William Pauley‘s courtroom, the judge was told that H.J. Heinz, Smithfield Foods and 554 other packaged goods firms had reached a settlement in principle.
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