Merger Update

19 Mar 2008 15:00

Office of Fair Trading19 March 2008 Merger Clearances: The OFT has decided, on the information currently available to it, not to referthe following mergers to the Competition Commission under the provisions of theEnterprise Act 2002: Completed acquisition by Dairy Crest Group plc of the dairy business of East ofEngland Cooperative Society Limited Completed acquisition by Synergy Healthcare plc of Vernon-Carus Limited The text of these decisions will be placed on the Office of Fair Trading's website at www.oft.gov.uk as soon as is reasonably practicable. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange