On Monday France’s competition authority officially “cleared” the proposed deal for media company Media-Participations (which specializes in comics and graphic novels, but also publishes magazines, has a film/tv production arm, and a digital media group focused on videogames) to acquire French book publisher La Martiniere Group (which also owns Abrams in the US). The Autorité de la concurrence “considered that the transaction would not be liable to harm competition,” noting “the limited nature of the positions held by the Média-Participations group and La Martinière Groupe in all the affected markets. It also took into consideration the significant competitive pressure that France’s principal […]
