Co-operative Group / Southern Co-operative merger inquiry
- Source
- Competition and Markets Authority - Activity
- Source link
- https://www.gov.uk/cma-cases/co-operative-group-slash-southern-co-operative-merger-inquiry
- Published
- 2026-07-30 11:01:27
- Discovered by ProcIntel
- 2026-07-31 07:47:51
- Category
- M&A
- Geography
- UK
- Organisations
- —
- Review status
- Pending
- Record type
- REAL
Summary
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is investigating the completed acquisition by Co-operative Group Limited of The Southern Co-operative Limited.
Procurement Relevance Gate
- supplier_or_company_impact (weight 12) — matched on "merger"
- geographic_exposure (weight 8) — matched on "1 linked geography"
Initial Signal Assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.
A provisional, automatically-computed reading of this individual Signal, before Event extraction or human review. Not a final rating.
- Initial Significance
- 2 · Moderate (29.0/100)
- Initial Confidence
- 4 · High (67.25/100)
- Data sufficiency Whether enough structured evidence exists to trust this Signal's Initial Confidence reading. 'Sufficient' has no cap; 'Partial' and 'Insufficient' cap Confidence until more evidence is available; 'Not Assessed' means the Signal did not pass the Relevance Gate.
- Sufficient — via authoritative origin
- Strongest contributor
- Likely Event Severity
- Limiting factor
- Geographic Breadth
Initial Significance Moderate (29.0/100). Strongest contributor: Likely Event Severity (12.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Geographic Breadth (0.0/10 points). Initial Confidence High (67.25/100, data sufficiency: Sufficient, Sufficient via authoritative_origin). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (40.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Corroboration (2.5/25 points).
- Only source-level geography metadata was available.
- Suppressed: a binding, unhedged Event-classifier phrase confirmed the same core action.
Linked Canonical Event(s): Co-operative Group / Southern Co-operative merger inquiry
Methodology signal_scoring_v1 — calculated 2026-08-03 16:29:50.