Consumer Reports: DOJ/FTC Proposed Update to Vertical Merger Guidelines Needs More Work, More Relevance to Marketplace
February 29, 2020
February 29, 2020
YONKERS, New York, Feb. 29 -- Consumer Reports issued the following news release on Feb. 28:
Consumer Reports has filed comments with the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission in response to a proposal to update their Enforcement Guidelines for assessing vertical mergers under the antitrust laws. These are mergers that combine two companies that operate at different levels in a supply and marketing chain, and therefore do, or could, do business with each other. The upda . . .
Consumer Reports has filed comments with the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission in response to a proposal to update their Enforcement Guidelines for assessing vertical mergers under the antitrust laws. These are mergers that combine two companies that operate at different levels in a supply and marketing chain, and therefore do, or could, do business with each other. The upda . . .