date:Jul 04, 2013
About a dozen states, led by Oklahoma's attorney general, will join the department's antitrust division in a review of the plan by ConAgra Foods Inc (CAG.N) to join Horizon Milling, a joint venture of Cargill Inc. CARG.UL and CHS Inc (CHSCP.O).
The deal would combine their U.S. flour milling businesses into a venture that would control about one-third of U.S. capacity, dwarfing all competitors in size and market reach. The deal was announced on March 5.
The antitrust division is investigating