Merger Notification - Announcement according to § 10 Cartel Act
SIG Combibloc Group AG; Clean Flexible Packaging Holding B.V.
BWB/Z-5893
On 01.03.2022 the Austrian Federal Competition Authority was notified of the following merger:
Planned purchase process
SIG Combibloc Group AG (Neuhausen am Rheinfall / Switzerland) intends to acquire all shares in and sole control over Clean Flexible Packaging Holding B.V (SX Tilburg /
the Netherlands) including its direct and indirect subsidiaries.
The proposed concentration concerns flexible packaging solutions.
Affected industry: Manufacture of plastic packing goods.
Industry sector: C - Verarbeitendes Gewerbe/Herstellung von Waren
Deadline for bringing in an application pursuant to § 11(1) Cartel Act will end on 29.03.2022.
Entrepreneurs whose legal or economic interests are affected by the merger can bring in a written statement at the Federal Competition Authority or the Federal Cartel Prosecutor within 14 days from publication date.
Note: The intervening party has no right to a certain treatment of the statement and will not gain a party position.
Non-prohibition of the merger
The Federal Competition Authority and the Federal Cartel Prosecutor have not applied for examination of the merger by the Cartel Court. The standstill obligation (§ 17 (1) Cartel Act) ends with effect from 30.03.2022 .