Merger Notification - Announcement according to § 10 Cartel Act
Stölting International GmbH; Raiffeisen Continuum Holding GmbH; Wagner RCP Security Holding GmbH
BWB/Z-6834
On 24.01.2025 the Austrian Federal Competition Authority was notified of the following merger:
Planned purchase process
Stölting International GmbH (Gelsenkirchen / Germany), a company of Stölting Service Group GmbH (Gelsenkirchen / Germany), intends to acquire approx. 51.8% of the shares in and joint control over Wagner RCP Security Holding GmbH (Vienna / Austria) and its subsidiary Wagner Sicherheit GmbH (Eisenstadt / Austria).The intended concentration concerns security services.
Affected business areas: Investigation and private security activities.
O 80.01 - Investigation and private security activities
Deadline for bringing in an application pursuant to § 11(1) Cartel Act will end on 21.02.2025.
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 22.02.2025 .