{"id":84632,"date":"2017-09-21T06:00:24","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T06:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=3d2b14495f1f6ba10659acf14cc46e55"},"modified":"2017-09-21T06:00:24","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T06:00:24","slug":"news-story-vehicle-data-merger-to-go-ahead-after-firms-address-competition-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=84632","title":{"rendered":"News story: Vehicle data merger to go ahead after firms address competition concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The companies are the 2 main suppliers of data services for mechanics across the UK. Garages and workshops use this data to help diagnose, service and repair vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The companies compete closely with each other meaning that, if the merger had gone ahead as planned, garages could see prices rise or a drop in the quality of their service.<\/p>\n<p>In response to these concerns, Solera offered to sell its vehicle repair and maintenance information platforms to HaynesPro, a buyer approved in advance by the Competition and Markets Authority (<abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr>). It also offered to provide transitional support to the buyer. The authority assessed Solera\u2019s remedies offer and opened a public consultation.<\/p>\n<p>Following this public consultation, and after the <abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr> approved the sale agreement between Solera and HaynesPro, it has now accepted Solera\u2019s remedies proposal.<\/p>\n<p>Solera and Autodata Publishing Group Limited are now free to progress their merger, which will not be referred for an in-depth (\u2018phase 2\u2019) investigation.<\/p>\n<p>All information relating to this investigation can be found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/cma-cases\/solera-emperor-1-merger-inquiry\">case page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CMA has accepted proposals to resolve competition concerns in the merger of Solera Holdings, Inc. and Autodata Publishing Group 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\/84632"}],"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=84632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}