Antitrust OK to Feltrinelli-Messaggerie joint venture
(AGI) Rome, Dec 6 - The Antitrust authority has given thego-ahead for a joint book distribution venture between theMessaggerie and Feltrinelli groups, conditional on measuresbeing taken to safeguard small to medium-sized publishers. Astatement said the merger would stop the two leadingdistributors at national level competing against each other.The Italian competition authority AGCM has ascertained that thefuture joint venture will hold a dominant position on the thirdparty book distribution market and that this could havenegative effects on small to medium-sized independentpublishers, whose negotiating powers would be significantlyreduced by the new