Merger Notification - Announcement according to § 10 Cartel Act
SOL-Drei EuVECA GmbH & Co KG; SIMPLON Holding GmbH
BWB/Z-6795
On 11.12.2024 the Austrian Federal Competition Authority was notified of the following merger:
Planned purchase process
SOL-Drei EuVECA GmbH & Co KG (Vienna / Austria), which is controlled by SOL Capital Management GmbH (Vienna / Austria), intends to indirectly acquire, through a special purpose vehicle, all the shares in and sole control over SIMPLON Holding GmbH (Hard / Austria) and its subsidiaries. The intended concentration concerns the manufacturing of bicycles.
Affected business areas: Manufacture of bicycles.
C - MANUFACTURING
Deadline for bringing in an application pursuant to § 11(1) Cartel Act will end on 08.01.2025.
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 waived their right to apply for examination of the merger by the Cartel Court before the deadline. The standstill obligation (§ 17(1) Cartel Act) ends with effect from 30.12.2024 .