ECJ MERGER CASE
October 1st, 2002
BY ALAN OSBORNA RULING by the European Court of First Instance today (Friday) has flatly rejected the analysis and judgments made by the European Commission about drinks packaging when it last year banned the proposed merger between the Tetra Laval group, world leader in carton packaging, and the French company Sidel, which designs and manufactures plastic bottles. "The economic analysis of the immediate anti-competitive effects, of conglomerate effects and of the foreseeable conduct of the companies in question is based on insufficient evidence and some errors ...
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