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UK To Probe Unilever's Environmental Claims As Part Of Greenwashing Crackdown

Britain's competition watchdog has said that it plans to scrutinise environmental claims made by UK consumer goods giant Unilever about certain household e...

UK Clears Amazon's $1.7 bln Deal For Roomba-Maker iRobot

Britain's competition regulator on Friday cleared Amazon.com Inc's planned $1.7 billion acquisition of iRobot Corp, maker of the Roomba vacuum cleaner.

UK Finance Minister To Meet Food Manufacturers To Discuss High Prices

British Finance Minister Jeremy Hunt plans to raise concerns about the surge in food prices and discuss ways to ease the strain on families when he meets f...

UK Regulator Tells Asda To Fix Competition Concerns Over Co-op Fuel Deal

Britain's competition regulator has found that supermarket group Asda's £611 million (€691 million) purchase of the Co-op's 132 petrol stations...

Greenwashing On Food, Drink, Toiletry Labels To Be Scrutinised In UK

Britain's competition regulator will consider whether companies selling food, drink and toiletries are wrongly labelling products as "sustainable"...

ForFarmers-Boparan JV Could Trigger Higher Costs For Farmers

The UK competition watchdog has said that the potential joint venture between Dutch animal feed maker ForFarmers and British firm Boparan could lead to far...

UK Competition Watchdog To Probe Morrisons' Purchase Of McColl's

Britain's competition regulator is to investigate supermarket group Morrisons' purchase of convenience store chain McColl's out of administration.

Competition Regulator Raises Fuel Price Concerns Over Morrisons Deal

Britain's competition regulator has ruled that US private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice's takeover of supermarket group Morrisons could lead to...