(Embraco), a division of Whirlpool S.A.; Gerson Veríssimo, former president of Tecumseh do Brasil Ltda., a subsidiary of Tecumseh Products Company; and Naoki Adachi, general manager of global sales & SE group, refrigeration devices division at Panasonic Corporation, with conspiring to suppress and eliminate competition by coordinating price increases for refrigerant compressors to customers in the United States and elsewhere. [read post]

" Tecumseh Products said yesterday: Tecumseh Products Company , a leading global manufacturer of compressors and related products, today announced that the Company is in receipt of a subpoena from the United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division and a formal request for information from the Secretariat of Economic Law of the Ministry of Justice of Brazil related to investigations by these authorities into the compressor… [read post]