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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10775

31 January 2013
Contents Publication in full By article 27 / 31
ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS / (ae) competition
Commission blocks UPS-TNT Express merger

Brussels, 30/01/2013 (Agence Europe) -On 30 January 2013, the European Commission blocked the planned buy-up of Dutch courier company TNT Express by its US competitor UPS because its investigaiton found that the takeover would have restricted competition by reducing from four to three (or even two - DHL and UPS) significant players in some countries and would lead to price increases for parcel delivery in 29 countries, seriously restricting competition in 15 member states. The various...

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