Monopolies and Mergers Commission (Hansard, 26 October 1984)

§ Mr. Fletcher

The reports of the commission received since May 1979 are listed as follows. An asterisk indicates which have given rise to action by the Government.

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The Government have no power to take action on a report where the commission concludes that none of the matters investigated operates, or may be expected to operate, against the public interest.

Monopoly Reports

Credit Card Franchise Services
Domestic Gas Appliances
Trading Check Franchise and Financial Services^*
Roadside Advertising Services^*
Tampons^*
Liquefied Petroleum Gas^*
Concrete Roofing Tiles^*
Ready Mixed Concrete
Car Parts^*
Contraceptive Sheaths^*
Films^*
Holiday Caravan Sites in Northern Ireland

Merger Reports

General Electric Company/Averys
FMC/Merck & Co. Inc/Alginate Industries
Hiram Walker—Gooderham & Wortsrf he Highland Distilleries Co. ^*
Blue Circle Inds. Ltd./Armitage Shanks Group
S. & W. Berisford/British Sugar Corp^*
Compagnie Internationale Europcar/Godfrey Davis
Lonrho/House of Fraser^*
Enserch Corporation/Davy Corporation^*
European Ferries/Sealink^*
Hoverlloyd/BR Hovercraft
Standard Chartered Bank/Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corp/Royal Bank of Scotland^*
BTR/Serck
Nabisco Brands/Huntley and Palmer Foods
Imperial Chemical Industries/Arthur Holden & Sons
The Great Universal Stores/Empire Stores^*
Charter Consolidated/Anderson Strathclyde
The Sunlight Service Group/Johnson Group Cleaners/Initial^*
Linfood/Fitch Lovell
The Enterprises of Alan J. Lewis/Illingworth, Morris
Ibstock Johnson/London Brick
Alfred Taubman/Sotheby Parke Bernet
Grand Metropolitan/Pleasurama/Trident Television
Hepworth Ceramic/Steetley^*
P. & O./Trafalgar House
Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds/AE^*

Newspaper Mergers

Surrey Advertiser Newspaper Holdings/The Guardian and Manchester Evening News
West Somerset Free Press/Bristol United Press^*
J. Andrew & Co./United Newspapers
The Observer/George Outram & Co. ^*
The Berrow's Organisation/Reed International^*
South Wales Argus (Holdings)/Express Newspapers
Benham Newspapers/St. Regis International/Reed International

GENERAL REPORTS

Full-line Forcing and Tie-In sales.
Discounts to Retailers

COMPETITION ACT (SECTION 8) REPORTS

T. I. Raleigh^*
Sheffield Newspapers^*
London Electricity Board^*

PUBLIC SECTOR INVESTIGATIONS UNDER THE FAIR TRADING ACT AND COMPETITION ACT (SECTION I I)

Inner London letter post^*
BR commuter services^*
CEGB^*
Severn-Trent Water Authority^*
Four Bus undertakings^*
Sewerage function of Anglian NW Water Authority^*
Caledonian MacBrayne^*
National Coal Board^*
Yorkshire Electricity Board^*
Civil Aviation Authority^*
London Transport Bus Maintenance^*
South Wales Electricity Board
Post Office Letter Service
Yorkshire Water Authority