Department of Justice approves Random House and Penguin merger

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Department of Justice approves Random House and Penguin merger

Feb 14 2013

The US Department of Justice has approved the Penguin and Random House: The department notified Bertelsmann and Pearson "that it has closed its investigation into the proposed merger of Penguin and Random House, without conditions." according to a statement. The announcement is surprising as it took the DOJ about nine months to approve the much smaller acquisition of Thomas Nelson by HarperCollins.

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