Spreadex challenges CMA’s provisional Sporting Index merger findings
Spreadex challenged the CMA’s provisional finding that its acquisition of Sporting Index’s consumer business could lessen competition, according to the company’s submissions described in the report. The CMA has proposed a remedy requiring Spreadex to recreate and sell a competing business; the Competition Appeal Tribunal had sent the regulator’s original decision back for reconsideration in February.
The CMA’s remedy could require Spreadex to recreate and sell a competing business, reshaping competition after the acquisition.