"We were in contact with competitors four to five years ago concerning exports, but in the last three years we avoided all contact with them, and in the past year we've been actually going against the flow, and we're very competitive", "Globes" was told by Matzot Aviv owner, David Wolf. According to Wolf, the company has neither a direct nor an indirect connection with the matzos cartel.
Wolf's remarks were made in response to a "Globes" report that Anti-Trust Authority director general David Tadmor is about to issue injunctions against companies suspected of involvement in the matzos cartel, in order to prevent them from coordinating prices ahead of Passover.
"I may have run into a competitor at an exhibition here and there, but there have been no attempts to coordinate prices", Wolf said. He added that he had been interrogated by Anti-Trust Authority director general investigators, who came to his offices and seized documents.
According to Wolf, not only did Matzot Aviv not raise matzos prices ahead of Passover 2000, it even cut them significantly, without coordinating prices or discounts with competitors.
Published by Israel's Business Arena on 6 April, 2000