New Zealand Mulls Interventions to Break Supermarket Duopoly (1)

New Zealandwill canvass a range of options to break a duopoly in its grocery market, including reducing barriers to a new international entrant and forcing the separation of the existing supermarket chains.

The government will now “actively seek a third player” and consider how to facilitate their investment in New Zealand, Finance Minister Nicola Willis told a news conference Sunday in Wellington. “At the same time, I have asked officials for advice on ways in which the grocery sector could be restructured to increase competition,” she said.

Foodstuffs New Zealand and the local unit of Australia’s Woolworths Group Ltd. ...