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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7811

2 October 2000
Contents Publication in full By article 17 / 37
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/competition
Commission clears acquisition of Bestfoods (United States) by Unilever (United Kingdom/Netherlands)

Brussels, 02/10/2000 (Agence Europe) - The Commission has approved the takeover of Bestfoods by Unilever, the two parties having made substantial concessions to resolve competition concerns and whose activities in production and distribution overlap in close to 150 national markets in the food product sector. More specifically, in the retail trade for food products (sales to supermarkets and small retailers), the overlap of the activities of the two partners would have led to problems of...

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