The Icelandic Competition Authority cleares a merger in the agricultural products market subject to remedies, mostly concerning restrictions on marketing and sales activities (Fodurblandan/KS/ÁBV/BS)

The operation In August 2005 the Icelandic Competition Authority (ICA) was informed that a group of investors had acquired all the shares in Fodurblandan (FB) and that shortly afterwards there had been a merger between FB and three other companies active in agricultural markets (KS, ÁBV and BS). When reviewing the 2005 merger between FB, KS, ÁBV and BS, the ICA discovered that a previously KS, KB and KHB had bought shares in ÁBV, all companies working in the agricultural