Translation of "distributeur de primes " (French → English) :

Instances such as under the cost selling, threats of delisting, special supermarket taxes for putting certain brands of food on the shelves, listing charges, slotting allowances, retroactive discounts on goods already sold or unjustified high contributions to retailer promotion expenses or insistence on exclusive supply are all addressed in the report.

Such practices include the use of tobacco brand names on non-tobacco products or services (brand-stretching) and/or clothes (merchandising), the use of promotional items (such as ordinary objects like ashtrays, lighters, parasols and other similar objects) and of tobacco samples, the use and communication of sales promotion (such as a discount, a free gift, a premium or an opportunity to participate in a promotional contest or game), the use of billboards, posters and other indoor or outdoor advertising techniques (such as advertising on tobacco vending machines), the use of tobacco advertising in cinemas, as well as any other forms of advertising, sponsorsh ...[+++]ip or practices directly or indirectly addressed to promote tobacco products.

Bonus systems based on the destination of the vehicles or any form of discriminatory product supply to distributors, whether in the case of product shortage or otherwise, also amount to an indirect restriction on sales.

The Commission has established that Michelin operated a complex system of quantitative rebates, bonuses and commercial agreements, which constitute a loyalty-inducing and unfair system vis-à-vis its dealers.

After a careful and lengthy investigation, the Commission has come to the conclusion that Michelin's complex system of quantitative rebates, bonuses and other commercial practices illegally tied dealers and foreclosed the French market to other tyre manufacturers.

It may also result from indirect measures aimed at inducing the distributor not to sell to such customers, such as refusal or reduction of bonuses or discounts, refusal to supply, reduction of supplied volumes or limitation of supplied volumes to the demand within the allocated territory or customer group, threat of contract termination or profit pass-over obligations.