{"id":57558,"date":"2015-06-04T10:05:20","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T10:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=cc005409a3c069274ad0eb34d715a0f2"},"modified":"2015-06-04T10:05:20","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T10:05:20","slug":"press-release-cma-invites-comments-on-greene-king-pub-sales-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=57558","title":{"rendered":"Press release: CMA invites comments on Greene King pub sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Greene King offered the undertaking after the Competition and Markets Authority (<abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr>) found a realistic prospect of a substantial lessening of competition from its proposed acquisition of the Spirit Pub Company. In order to address this, Greene King offered to divest pubs in the 16 areas that caused concern.<\/p>\n<p>On 26 May, the <abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/cma-to-look-in-detail-at-greene-king-proposed-undertakings\">announced<\/a> that it would look in detail at the undertaking offered by Greene King and is minded to accept the proposal. It has until 21 July 2015 to consider whether to accept the undertaking, or a modified version of it, and as part of this process it is now consulting publicly on whether the proposed undertaking is sufficient to address the competition concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Before reaching a final decision, the <abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr> is therefore inviting interested parties to make their views known. The deadline for responses is 18 June 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The consultation on the undertaking and all other information relating to this merger investigation can be found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/cma-cases\/greene-king-spirit-pub-company-merger-inquiry\">case page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The pubs proposed for sale are set out in <span class=\"attachment inline\" id=\"attachment_1058884\"><br \/>\n  <a href=\"\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/432425\/Annex_1_-_Divestment_pubs.pdf\">Annex 1<\/a><br \/>\n  (<span class=\"type\"><abbr title=\"Portable Document Format\">PDF<\/abbr><\/span>, <span class=\"file-size\">110KB<\/span>, <span class=\"page-length\">1 page<\/span>)<br \/>\n<\/span>.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"notes-for-editors\">Notes for editors<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>The <abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr> is the UK\u2019s primary competition and consumer authority. It is an independent non-ministerial government department with responsibility for carrying out investigations into mergers, markets and the regulated industries and enforcing competition and consumer law. From 1 April 2014 it took over the functions of the Competition Commission and the competition and certain consumer functions of the Office of Fair Trading, as amended by the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013.<\/li>\n<li>For more information on the <abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr> see our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/competition-and-markets-authority\">homepage<\/a>, or follow us on Twitter <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CMAgovUK\">@CMAgovuk<\/a>, <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cma-gov-uk\/\">Flickr<\/a> and <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/competition-and-markets-authority\">LinkedIn<\/a>. Sign up to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/cma-cases\/email-signup\">email alerts<\/a> to receive updates on merger cases.<\/li>\n<li>Enquiries should be directed Simon Belgard (<a href=\"mailto:simon.belgard@cma.gsi.gov.uk\">simon.belgard@cma.gsi.gov.uk<\/a>, 020 3738 6472).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CMA has opened a consultation on proposals offered by Greene King to address competition concerns relating to its purchase of another pub group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}