{"id":85364,"date":"2017-10-16T09:59:47","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T09:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=bdec28b5cf15df3541e99d01a09f8a16"},"modified":"2017-10-16T09:59:47","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T09:59:47","slug":"news-story-cma-accepts-origins-remedy-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=85364","title":{"rendered":"News story: CMA accepts Origin\u2019s remedy proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Origin and Bunn are 2 of the 3 main suppliers of fertiliser to farmers and farmers\u2019 merchants in the central\/eastern region of Scotland.<\/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 local customers.<\/p>\n<p>Origin subsequently offered to sell Bunn\u2019s Montrose business to prevent any negative impact on competition from the merger.<\/p>\n<p>The <abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr> found that Origin\u2019s proposal would, in principle, satisfy its competition concerns and opened a 15-day <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/consultation-on-proposal-to-resolve-fertiliser-merger-concerns\">consultation<\/a> in September on the remedy. Following this, the <abbr title=\"Competition and Markets Authority\">CMA<\/abbr> is now fully satisfied that the proposal will address the issues that it identified and will not be referring the case for an in-depth, phase 2, investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Bunn\u2019s Montrose business will now be sold to Glasson Grain Limited.<\/p>\n<p>All information relating to the investigation 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 accepted 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\/85364"}],"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=85364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}