On Monday 30 July, the European Commission approved the joint takeover of Dole by Total Produce, subject to the divestment of Dole's bagged salad business in Sweden.
Both companies are fresh produce distributors in the European Union. When the transaction was notified to the Commission on 11 June of this year, it expressed concerns that it would create a competition distortion on the market for the supply of bagged salad in Sweden, as the merged entity would have had only one significant...