UK: Amazon fined over failure to respond to Deliveroo merger inquiry
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The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has imposed penalties on Amazon for the failure to provide complete responses to two sets of statutory information requests in regards to the Amazon/Deliveroo merger investigation.
The investigation was into the acquisition by Amazon of certain rights and a minority shareholding in RooFoods Ltd (trading as Deliveroo).
The CMA has imposed penalties of £25,000 and £30,000 in relation to the failures which resulted in documents being produced after the initial deadline.
Some documents were provided almost two months later within the course of a six month investigation.
The CMA considered that, although Amazon did eventually provide the information required, its behaviour caused unnecessary delays to the CMA’s investigation.