Archive of all Competition and Markets Authority articles – Page 24
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NewsPepsiCo completes £20m deal for Pipers Crisps
PepsiCo has completed the acquisition of foodservice snacking specialist Pipers Crisps after receiving the green light from the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority.
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Analysis & FeaturesStick or twist: should independent retailers be rethinking their symbol group?
Symbol groups are having to fight harder than ever to keep independent retailers loyal
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NewsSainsbury's-Asda faced 'unfair' CMA timeframe, judges rule
The CMA is expected to announce its provisional findings later this month or in early February
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NewsMedia Bites 21 Jan: Sainsbury's/Asda, Patisserie Valerie, Brexit
Tesco and Morrisons are positioned to block the £10bn merger of Sainsbury’s and Asda by refusing to buy scores of stores
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Analysis & FeaturesSainsbury's shares rise despite weak third quarter
The City sent the supermarket’s shares upwards despite it being singled out as the industry laggard in Christmas performance
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NewsSainsbury's attributes falling sales to cautious shoppers
Like-for-like sales from Argos stores open for over a year in Sainsbury’s supermarkets increased 10% year on year
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Comment & OpinionIs the CMA easing up on food and drink mergers?
There have been more reviews, but not more regulatory interventions, says Andrew Taylor, partner at Aldwych Partners
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Analysis & FeaturesWhat do the experts predict for food and drink in 2019?
Industry experts give their 2019 predictions on environment, consumer trends, Brexit and more
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Analysis & FeaturesBombshell mergers, sensational shortages and environmental triumphs: 2018 in review
There were mergers so seismic in scale they could change grocery for good, and new arrivals that went out with a whimper
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Comment & OpinionA grocer’s life: how wholesale has got faster and smarter
In his final column for The Grocer, retiring wholesale legend Steve Parfett looks back on his 40 years in the grocery trade
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NewsSainsbury’s and Asda win court hearing against the CMA
Sainsbury’s and Asda won a competition appeal tribunal against the Competition & Markets Authority to be granted extra time to respond to the merger enquiry.
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NewsMedia Bites 17 Dec: Just Eat, Sainsbury's/Asda, Christmas trading
A US hedge fund has criticised Just Eat for becoming “the worst-performing public equity in online food delivery”.
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NewsFDF report: 90% of suppliers concerned over Sainsda merger
The FDF’s formal submission to the CMA’s probe into the deal claims it would have ‘disastrous impact’ on innovation
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NewsCity News: Sainsbury’s shares sink following CMA legal challenge
Sainsbury’s this week reassured shareholders its legal challenge to the Competition & Markets Authority had not dented its “confidence” its mega-merger with Asda will go ahead, but nervous shareholders had other ideas.
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Comment & OpinionUpheaval, disruption and scandal: 2018 had everything
In an up-and-down year, the triumph of The Grocer’s Waste Not Want Not food waste campaign is our highlight
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NewsMedia Bites 14 Dec: Sainsbury's/Asda, UK high street. Ocado
The Competition and Markets Authority is delaying publishing its initial findings on the merger of Sainsbury’s and Asda from early next month to early February
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NewsOcado retail sales up 12% in fourth quarter
Ocado has grown its retail revenues by 12% in the fourth quarter, driven by a double-digit increase in order numbers.
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NewsMedia Bites 13 Dec: Sainsbury's/Asda, Pernod Ricard, British American Tobacco
“Sainsbury’s hit by Asda deal doubts” is the headline in the The Times after the pair launched a legal challenge against the CMA’s investigation timetable.
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NewsCMA warns of delay risk to Sainsbury's-Asda merger probe
The CMA’s response came after Sainsbury’s and Asda revealed they would lodge an application to the Competition Appeal Tribunal
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NewsSainsbury’s and Asda request judicial review to extend CMA process
Sainsbury’s and Asda will today lodge an application for a judicial review of the Competition & Marketes Authority investigation into their proposed merger.