BRUSSELS BACK DANISH CROWN TAKEOVER IN GERMANY
January 1st, 2011
BY KEITH NUTHALL
DENMARK'S meat major Danish Crown has been given permission by the European Commission to purchase German pig meat slaughtering company D&S Fleisch. Danish Crown, itself a pig meat specialist, saw the deal approved without conditions via a fast track, being "examined under the simplified merger review procedure", said the Commission - the European Union's senior competition authority. Slaughtering 3.5 million animals a year, D&S Fleisch is the fourth-biggest slaughterhouse in Germany. A Danish Crown note said: "Germany is ...
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