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Content type: Advocacy

Submissions to the UK and EU competition authorities on the Amazon/iRobot merger

23rd May 2023

Background In August 2022, Amazon announced that they had entered into a definitive merger agreement to acquire iRobot, a company that specialises in designing and building consumer robots. The transaction was formally notified to the European Commission on 1 June 2023, while the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has already launched an investigation into the transaction since April 2023. We believe that this acquisition is likely to significantly impede effective competition in and…