The country's biggest department store chains are facing investigation over suggestions they colluded with a bra manufacturer to fix prices.
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) alleged that the manufacturer of the Shock-Absorber range, DB Apparel UK, entered into nine anti-competitive agreements with John Lewis, Debenhams and House of Fraser between 2008 and 2011.
It has requested a response to the claims from the four companies but the OFT said it believed they infringed competition law by entering into resale price maintenance deals that set a fixed or minimum resale price on numerous products within the sports bra range nationally.
The OFT said that during the three years in question, the Shock-Absorber range had a market share of about 15%.
Ann Pope, the regulator's senior director of services, said: "The OFT takes allegations of price-fixing seriously.
"Resale price maintenance limits competition between retailers and can lead to consumers paying higher prices.
"We will carefully consider the parties' representations to the OFT's Statement of Objections before deciding whether competition law has in fact been broken," she concluded.
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