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Grocery sector off limits for New Zealand's new antitrust minister

By Saloni Sinha ( March 11, 2025, 06:11 GMT | Insight) -- New Zealand's newly sworn-in competition minister, Scott Simpson, has recused himself from overseeing antitrust issues in the notoriously concentrated grocery sector due to his ties with a supermarket. Speaking on New Zealand radio after his appointment, Simpson said he was "very excited" by the work he was set to undertake, which had been put in place by his predecessor Andrew Bayly. New Zealand's newly sworn-in competition minister, Scott Simpson, has recused himself from overseeing antitrust issues in the notoriously concentrated grocery sector due to his ties with a supermarket....

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