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Several prominent mergers and acquisitions have been blocked or challenged by the Biden-Harris administration in 2024, ...

The impact on prices, and the American consumer, was a key point in the FTC's arguments against the merger of Kroger and ...

During the heyday of American antitrust rulings, from the 1930s to the ’70s, few industries faced as much scrutiny as the grocery sector. In 1949, for example, the Justice Department won a landmark ...

The FTC sued in February to halt on antitrust grounds downtown Cincinnati-based Kroger’s (NYSE: KR) plans to buy Boise, Idaho-based rival Albertsons (NYSE: ACI) in a deal involving the nation ...

The proposed $24.6 billion merger between supermarket giants Kroger and Albertsons floundered on Tuesday after judges ...

Republicans said the FTC was too politicized. Now Donald Trump’s FTC pick, Andrew Ferguson, says it should be politicized — ...

But the FTC could look very different under President-elect Donald Trump. What does that mean for the Kroger-Albertsons merger going forward?

The FTC’s intervention in the Kroger-Albertsons deal is seen by many as a signal of heightened scrutiny for future retail ...

But according to Albertsons, Kroger repeatedly proposed “plainly indefensible” divestment plans to the FTC, allegedly disregarding Albertsons’ exhortations to suggest divestments that would ...

Albertsons sued Kroger after a US judge blocked the merger of the supermarket giants, claiming Kroger failed to exercise “best efforts” and take “any and all actions” to secure regulatory ...