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Company: Whole Foods Market, Inc.
Current Parent Company: Amazon.com
Penalty: $4,125,000
Year: 2017
Date: August 22, 2017
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Violation Description: Millennium Products and Whole Foods Market together agreed to pay $8.25 million to settle litigation involving the mislabeling of a kambucha beverage products. Court documents did not specify how much each would pay. Here we assume they each paid half of the total.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: private litigation
Court: Central District of California
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Case ID: 2:15cv1801
Case Name: Jonathan Retta et al v. Millennium Products, Inc.
Private Lawsuit Resolution Type: settlement
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: Washington
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: retailing
Specific Industry of Current Parent: retail-internet
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