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UK Regulator Provisionally Clears T&L Sugars' Tereos Deal

Britain's competition watchdog has provisionally approved the deal for T&L Sugars to buy Tereos UK & Ireland's retail sugar business.

UK Watchdog Finds Little Evidence Supermarkets' Loyalty Prices Mislead Shoppers

Britain's competition regulator said on Friday its ongoing review of supermarket loyalty prices was unlikely to identify widespread evidence of promotions...

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...