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Energizer-Spectrum deal deserves US FTC investigation, Senator Baldwin says

( August 23, 2023, 22:31 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: US Senator Tammy Baldwin called on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate and conduct a retrospective analysis of the 2018 Energizer-Spectrum Brands merger, which Baldwin said led to price hikes for consumers and threatened hundreds of jobs in Wisconsin. “Following this merger, hundreds of Wisconsinites are now on the cusp of losing a good-paying, union job. Revisiting this merger, on behalf of these workers and the consumers who now face higher prices, is clearly in the public interest and squarely within the [Federal Trade] Commission’s authority to investigate mergers both before and after they are completed,” Baldwin wrote.Statement follows in full. ...

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