July 22, 2025
The U.S. Department of Justice cleared a door maker's merger twice by the time a rival challenged the tie-up in court and won a landmark divestment order, but now the government is standing behind the company that won the order and asking the Fourth Circuit to keep it in place.
July 15, 2025
Steves & Sons Inc. has urged the Fourth Circuit to preserve the first court-ordered divestiture in a private merger challenge, arguing Jeld-Wen's sale of the Pennsylvania factory restored competition in the market for the door skins used to make molded interior doors.
May 05, 2025
Jeld-Wen Inc. urged the Fourth Circuit to undo a landmark order forcing it to sell a manufacturing plant, saying a divestiture is no longer needed because the rival door maker that sued is no longer at risk of going out of business.
February 06, 2025
Jeld-Wen Inc. is taking another trip to the Fourth Circuit to fight an order forcing it to sell a door skin factory, filing a notice of appeal Thursday after a Virginia federal judge said a $115 million price is fair.
December 20, 2024
A Virginia federal court has rejected Jeld-Wen Inc.'s bid to overturn a landmark order forcing it to sell a door skin factory after finding the $115 million price is fair considering the circumstances and that its rival's plan to open its own factory will not restore competition.
December 16, 2024
A Virginia federal court has approved the planned $115 million sale of a door-skin manufacturing plant after a landmark order forced Jeld-Wen to unload the factory in a long-running private antitrust case by rival Steves & Sons Inc.
November 04, 2024
The proposed buyer of a door-skin manufacturing plant asked a Virginia federal court for permission to intervene in the private antitrust case that led to a landmark order forcing Jeld-Wen to unload the factory.
May 02, 2024
Door maker Jeld-Wen has asked a Virginia federal court to dismiss an order in a private merger challenge requiring it to sell a manufacturing plant, saying the landscape has changed since the landmark 2018 ruling.
May 17, 2022
The Virginia federal judge overseeing a landmark private merger challenge agreed to let rival door makers work out a long-term supply contract that could help streamline the coming court-ordered sale of a manufacturing plant.
May 09, 2022
The U.S. Department of Justice told a Virginia federal court that it was right to consider barring a door manufacturer from being a potential buyer of a door parts supplier slated for divestiture.