A recap of some of our biggest stories of 2023 and a look ahead to antimonopoly action expected in 2024.
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Checking in on antitrust review of Kroger and Albertson’s proposed merger, one year later.
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Bunge’s proposed merger with Glencore’s Viterra would be the largest grain trading deal in over a decade, creating a global agricultural commodity goliath to rival industry leaders Archer-Daniels-Midland and Cargill.
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JBS will buy undisclosed assets from Iowa hog producer TriOak, locking up a supply of Prop-12 compliant hogs and vertically integrating an already consolidated industry.
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Legal challenges to Albertsons’s special dividend put a spotlight on the ways private equity extraction drives grocery consolidation.
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A merged Kroger/Albertsons empire could supercharge store closures, layoffs, price gouging, and supplier squeezing, further harming shoppers, workers, farmers, and independent grocers.
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Farmers and food businesses urge antitrust enforcers to strengthen merger guidelines and fight consolidation.
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Antitrust agencies have had a light touch on vertical merger enforcement for decades. That may be about to change.
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As poultry corporations face price- and wage-fixing scandals, Cargill and Continental Grain want to further consolidate the industry.
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No one seems to know how to offer quick, profitable grocery delivery without gouging grocers, exploiting workers, or abandoning brick-and-mortar stores altogether.
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America has a railroad monopoly problem, but merging the smallest Class I carriers won’t solve it.
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By rolling up and vertically integrating an inherently local industry, Big Waste corporations pushed out thousands of local businesses, drove up trash collection costs, and created incentives to send goods to landfills.
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