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Foodstuffs warns New Zealand antitrust law changes could chill merger activities

By Saloni Sinha ( April 23, 2025, 07:19 GMT | Insight) -- New Zealand’s largest grocery retailers, Foodstuffs North Island and Foodstuffs South Island, have urged the government to maintain the country’s merger laws’ current thresholds, warning that any change to the “substantial lessening of competition” test would create uncertainty. The retailers say they’re open to the Commerce Commission considering behavioral undertakings in merger assessments, even where a deal might not initially meet competition thresholds. New Zealand’s largest grocery retailers, Foodstuffs North Island and Foodstuffs South Island, have urged the government to maintain the country’s merger laws’ current thresholds, warning that any change to the “substantial lessening of competition” test would create uncertainty....

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