Merger Notification - Announcement according to § 10 Cartel Act
Cargill Incorporated; Equus UK Topco Ltd
BWB/Z-5932
On 13.04.2022 the Austrian Federal Competition Authority was notified of the following merger:
Planned purchase process
Cargill Incorporated, USA, intends to acquire – through its subsidiary Cargill Velocity Holdings Limited, United Kingdom – all of the shares in and sole control
over Equus UK Topco Ltd containing the majority of the Performance Technologies and Industrial Chemicals business from Croda International PLC, United Kingdom.
The transaction relates to the production of specialty oleochemicals.
Industry sector: C - Verarbeitendes Gewerbe/Herstellung von Waren
Deadline for bringing in an application pursuant to § 11(1) Cartel Act will end on 11.05.2022.
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 12.05.2022 .