Merger Notification - Announcement according to § 10 Cartel Act

GPH Germany Packaging Holdings GmbH; TricorBraun Inc. - BWB/Z-6824 | Bundeswettbewerbsbehörde

GPH Germany Packaging Holdings GmbH; TricorBraun Inc.

BWB/Z-6824

13.01.2025

On 13.01.2025 the Austrian Federal Competition Authority was notified of the following merger:

Planned purchase process

TricorBraun Inc., 6 CityPlace Drive, Suite 1000, St. Louis, MO 63141, United States of America, a designer and distributor of packaging solutions, intends to acquire, indirectly through two whollyowned holding companies all shares in and sole control over the glass packaging suppliers (i) Euroglas Verpackungsgesellschaft mbH, Am Riederloh 26, 87656 Germaringen, Germany, and (ii) Glaspack-Verpackungsglashandelsgesellschaft m.b.H. Industriestraße 5, A-3701 Großweikersdorf, Austria.

Industry sector: C - Verarbeitendes Gewerbe/Herstellung von Waren

Deadline for bringing in an application pursuant to § 11(1) Cartel Act will end on 10.02.2025.

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 not applied for examination of the merger by the Cartel Court. The standstill obligation (§ 17 (1) Cartel Act) ends with effect from 11.02.2025 .

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