{"id":82550,"date":"2017-07-14T06:00:18","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T06:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=97dc945c456d0ec989cd735f115fb754"},"modified":"2017-07-14T06:00:18","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T06:00:18","slug":"news-story-origin-and-bunn-must-resolve-concerns-over-fertiliser-merger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=82550","title":{"rendered":"News story: Origin and Bunn must resolve concerns over fertiliser merger"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The companies must now offer proposals to address these concerns by 21 July or face an in-depth investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Both companies are national blenders and distributors of fertilisers for use in agriculture.<\/p>\n<p>Through its initial investigation, the Competition and Markets Authority (<abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr>) has found that Origin and Bunn are two of the three main suppliers of fertilisers in the central\/eastern region of Scotland, supplying farmers and farmers\u2019 merchants from their sites in Montrose. The <abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr> is concerned that bringing the two firms together could see prices rise for customers or result in a reduction in the choice of fertilisers available.<\/p>\n<p>The <abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr> found that there were sufficient alternative suppliers in other areas of Great Britain.<br \/>\nThe merger will be referred for an in-depth investigation by an independent group of <abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr> panel members unless Origin can offer undertakings by 21 July which sufficiently address the <abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr>\u2019s competition concerns.<\/p>\n<p>All information relating to the merger is available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/cma-cases\/origin-uk-operations-bunn-fertiliser-merger-inquiry\">case page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CMA has found that Origin\u2019s proposed acquisition of Bunn could reduce competition to supply fertilisers in Scotland.<\/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\/82550"}],"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=82550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}