Federal Trade Commission Study Needed To Assess The Effects Of Recent Divestitures On Competition In Retail Markets PDF Download

The FTC analyzes mergers (both proposed and completed) for possible anticompetitive harm in the marketplace, such as price increases or reduced innovation. This report provides info. on: (1) "clean sweep" divestitures, in which one of the merging parties divests all of its assets in the relevant product market(s), such as the retail sale of food and grocery prod. in supermarkets, within a single geog. market; (2) single buyers, who purchase all divested assets in a geog. market; and (3) upfront buyers, who are identified by the merging parties &, as agreed to by FTC, included in the proposed consent order as the buyers of the divested assets. Focuses on divestitures from FY1990-2000 for the grocery store, drug store, funeral serv., and gas station industries.