{"id":59599,"date":"2015-07-24T13:30:04","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T13:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=e7d61912cc07b90c0cf66b7cf0b8c854"},"modified":"2015-07-24T13:30:04","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T13:30:04","slug":"news-story-joseph-ash-w-corbett-co-galvanizing-merger-inquiry-formally-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=59599","title":{"rendered":"News story: Joseph Ash \/ W Corbett &amp; Co (Galvanizing) merger inquiry formally cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Joseph Ash Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hill &amp; Smith Holdings plc. The Competition and Markets Authority (<abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr>) has received assurances from Hill &amp; Smith Holdings plc and Joseph Ash Limited that the proposed acquisition has been abandoned.<\/p>\n<p>The <abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/cma-confirms-investigation-of-galvanising-merger\">referred<\/a> Joseph Ash Limited\u2019s anticipated acquisition of W Corbett &amp; Co (Galvanizing) Limited for an in-depth phase 2 investigation on 9 July 2015. On the same day, Hill &amp; Smith Holdings plc notified the stock exchange of its intention to abandon the transaction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CMA has formally cancelled its inquiry concerning Joseph Ash Limited\u2019s anticipated acquisition of W Corbett &amp; Co (Galvanizing) Limited.<\/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\/59599"}],"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=59599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}