Movistar+ offer to acquire 295 million euros for 22% of Canal + in the hands of Mediaset Spain. On July 4, 2014, Mediaset Spain accepted the offer to purchase 22% of Canal + Telefónica. The April 22, 2015, the CNMC gave its approval to the sale of Canal + to Telefónica. After this, Canal + began the process of merger with Movistar TV the July 7, 2015, which resulted in Movistar +. After the merger, Telefónica retained Canal+'s VOD service, launched in 2011. It is available on Android, Apple devices, the web, Smart TV (Samsung and LG), PS3/PS4 and Xbox. Movistar+
Alcohol monopoly alcohol monopoly also formerly existed in Taiwan between 1947 and 2002, when the Taiwanese market was opened to overseas brands as part of its admission to the WTO in 2002. The alcohol monopoly was created in the Swedish town of Falun in 1850, to prevent overconsumption and reduce the profit motive for sales of alcohol. It later went all over the country in 1905 when the Swedish parliament ordered all sales of vodka to be done via local alcohol monopolies. In 1895, Russia established a state monopoly on alcohol, which became a major source of revenue for the Russian government.