{"id":84067,"date":"2017-09-07T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T10:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=7b5b639625d6d6c16bc4276ca482bea1"},"modified":"2017-09-07T10:00:02","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T10:00:02","slug":"news-story-consultation-on-proposal-to-resolve-fertiliser-merger-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=84067","title":{"rendered":"News story: Consultation on proposal to resolve fertiliser merger concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Origin and Bunn are 2 of the 3 main suppliers of fertilisers in the central\/eastern region of Scotland, supplying farmers and farmers\u2019 merchants from their sites in Montrose.<\/p>\n<p>In its initial investigation, the Competition and Markets Authority (<abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr>) found that bringing the 2 firms together could see prices rise or result in a reduction in the choice of fertiliser available to customers.<\/p>\n<p>Following this decision, Origin has now offered to sell Bunn\u2019s Montrose business to Glasson Grain Limited to prevent any negative impact on competition from the merger.<\/p>\n<p>The <abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr> is opening a 15 day <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/cma-cases\/origin-uk-operations-bunn-fertiliser-merger-inquiry\/#phase-1\">consultation<\/a> on this proposal. The <abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr> will review responses to its consultation and will then determine whether to accept or reject Origin\u2019s proposal. Should this proposal be rejected, the case would be referred for a further in-depth investigation.<\/p>\n<p>All information relating to this investigation can be found 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 is consulting on Origin\u2019s proposal to maintain competition in fertiliser supply in Scotland, following its merger with Bunn.<\/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\/84067"}],"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=84067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}