Statement of the FTC’s Bureau of Competition Regarding Announcement that Republic National Distributing Company and Breakthru Beverage Group have Terminated Their Acquisition Agreement

Republic National Distributing Company and Breakthru Beverage Group announced on April 5 that that they have abandoned their proposed merger. “Staff of the Bureau of Competition and Bureau of Economics had been investigating the proposed transaction, and had informed RNDC and Breakthru Beverage of our significant concerns about likely anticompetitive harm if the transaction were […]