Sysco Corp. met with the five commissioners of the Federal Trade Commission in an attempt to head off the possibility of an antitrust lawsuit to block the food distributor’s planned $3.5 billion acquisition of rival US Foods.
The FTC has been investigating the proposed merger of the nation’s two largest food distributors for more than a year.
Sysco executives in the face-to-face meetings didn’t put forward a new formal offer to divest additional assets to win approval The Wall Street Journal announced Thursday.
Sysco said last week that it wasn’t worried that a lawsuit by the FTC would break up its deal to acquire US Foods. Even if the case does go to court, the company says there is ample time to reach a closure before the merger agreement expires in September.
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