date:Apr 16, 2014
July 2013, the FTC filed suit in a federal district court to halt the proposed acquisition on the grounds that an entity made up of the combined Ardagh/Saint-Gobain and Owens-Illinois, Inc. will control about 85% of the glass container market for brewers, and 77% of the market for distillers. This would reduce competition, likely resulting in higher prices for customers of beer or spirits glass containers, according to the commission.
Deborah Feinstein, Director of the FTCs Bureau of Competitio