Internal communications reveal instances when Kroger only lowered its prices after Albertsons did. Plus new evidence that C&S will struggle to manage over 550 divested stores.
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Candy giant Mars wants to buy Kellogg's former snacking division. Mars says this deal will improve product innovation and choices for consumers. Critics say the opposite.
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The European Commission approved Bunge’s takeover of Viterra on the condition that it sell off its Central European oilseed business. Judges begin to hear antitrust enforcers’ case against Kroger-Albertsons.
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Canada’s Competition Bureau finds that Bunge’s takeover of Viterra would hurt some farmers and canola buyers.
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Antitrust enforcers dealt two major challenges to corporate power at different ends of the food supply chain over the past two weeks.
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Kroger and Albertsons sell over half of all groceries in Washington state. State antitrust enforcers say that their merger will raise prices and harm workers and they’re suing to stop the deal.
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Just two companies control over 70% of cold storage in the US. Dozens of acquisitions shut small food companies out of chilled warehouse space. But new construction is on the rise.
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A recap of some of our biggest stories of 2023 and a look ahead to antimonopoly action expected in 2024.
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Checking in on antitrust review of Kroger and Albertson’s proposed merger, one year later.
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Bunge’s proposed merger with Glencore’s Viterra would be the largest grain trading deal in over a decade, creating a global agricultural commodity goliath to rival industry leaders Archer-Daniels-Midland and Cargill.
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JBS will buy undisclosed assets from Iowa hog producer TriOak, locking up a supply of Prop-12 compliant hogs and vertically integrating an already consolidated industry.
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Legal challenges to Albertsons’s special dividend put a spotlight on the ways private equity extraction drives grocery consolidation.
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