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OFT to meet with CAMRA
The Office of Fair Trading have agreed to meet with CAMRA (The Campaign for Real Ale) and MP Greg Mulholland amid the argument over their (the OFT’s) report on Tied houses last month. The report found no evidence to suggest that the relationship between pub companies and the landlords of tied houses is harming competition in the sector.
The parliamentary ‘Save the Pub Group’ is chaired by Mulholland, and along with CAMRA, have campaigned for the OFT’s report to be overturned. CAMRA insist the report was “based on insufficient reasoning and lacked detailed analysis”.
An OFT spokesman told The Morning Advertiser ; “The OFT followed fully the super-complaint procedure in accordance with the Enterprise Act 2002 and our published guidance. After careful and thorough consideration of the submissions put forward by CAMRA and other interested parties, we did not find evidence that supply ties are resulting in competition problems that are having an adverse impact on consumers. We have reiterated our offer to meet with Mr Mulholland and explain our analysis and conclusions, as we have already done with CAMRA.”
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