Chicken Licken deal gets CA nod

In a statement released this week, the competition watchdog said it had determined to unconditionally authorise the proposed transaction on the grounds that there were no substantive competition concerns that would arise in the fast food market.

“ The proposed transaction is not likely to result in a substantial lessening of competition, nor endanger the continuity of service, due to the absence of both product and geographic overlap in the activities of the merging parties.