EU Clears FrieslandCampina-Milcobel Merger, Enlarges Dairy Power
The European Commission has officially approved the proposed merger between Dutch cooperative FrieslandCampina and Belgian cooperative Milcobel. The deal, first announced in December 2024, will bring together operations processing around 10 billion kg of milk annually across nearly 11,000 member farms and 16,000 farmer‐members in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and northern France. The Commission concluded…