New Zealand’s Commerce Commission announced Tuesday that they, too, have approved the pending Penguin Random House merger, following on the approvals by the DOJ in February and Australia’s commerce commission earlier this month. In their decision, which arrived a couple of weeks in advance of their April 5 deadline, Commission chairman Mark Berry said in a statement said they “looked at the potential impact of the merger in the markets for book publishing rights, printed book distribution services provided to third party publishers and the wholesale of books” and considered that “in each of the relevant markets, the merged [Penguin […]
