South Africa: Govt Lodges Review Application of Wal-Mart/Massmart Deal

22 July 2011

Pretoria — Government has lodged an application seeking a review for the approval of the Wal-Mart/Massmart merger.

"The review application points to serious flaws on the provision of relevant information and documents by the merger parties, in consequence of the curtailment of information that the Competition Tribunal ordered to make available for discovery," the Departments of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Economic Development, and Trade and Industry said in a joint statement.

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