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Fanatics Holdings faces US monopolization claims from rival regarding sports cards

( August 3, 2023, 14:42 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Panini America filed US antitrust claims accusing Fanatics Holdings of illegally seeking to monopolize the markets for major US professional sports leagues trading cards. According to the complaint, Fanatics has engaged in secret exclusive licensing deals with major sports leagues that last 10 years at the minimum and acquired another trading card company, Topps, granting it further licensing rights. “[U]nlike Panini—which gradually grew in the US sports-trading-card industry through innovation and competitive success after starting with shorter term, often nonexclusive deals—Fanatics is preemptively eliminating all competition, before showing competitive superiority or any ability to benefit consumers.  And by locking up player trading cards for all three major US professional sports leagues for the next decade and two of them for the next two decades, Fanatics is foreclosing any meaningful competition for the foreseeable future,” it said....

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