The Competition Board concluded the preliminary inquiry conducted into the claim that by means of determining the resale prices of resellers, Korkmaz Mutfak Eşyaları Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş., Gençler Ev Araç ve Gereçleri Pazarlama Ticaret Anonim Şirketi and Punto Dayanıklı Tüketim Malları İthalat İhracat Ticaret Limited Şirketi and by means of imposing customer restrictions to resellers Korkmaz Mutfak Eşyaları Sanayi ve Ticaret Anonim Şirketi violated article 4 of the Act no 4054 on the Protection of Competition.

After discussing the information and documents acquired and observations made in the preliminary inquiry in its meeting of 30.06.2022, the Competition Board considered that the findings were significant and sufficient, and took the decision numbered 22-29/474-M to initiate an investigation about Korkmaz Mutfak Eşyaları Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş., Gençler Ev Araç ve Gereçleri Pazarlama Ticaret Anonim Şirketi and Punto Dayanıklı Tüketim Malları İthalat İhracat Ticaret Limited Şirketi.

*Investigation decisions taken by the Competition Board are announced to the public after the decision is notified to the undertakings or associations of undertakings about which an investigation has been initiated. Those announcements are made within the framework of informing the public about the decisions of the Competition Board and cannot be interpreted to mean that the undertakings or associations of undertakings under investigation violated the Act no 4054, or they are or will be subject to penal sanctions under the Act.