Merger Notification - Announcement according to § 10 Cartel Act
Home Care Capital Investment GmbH; Messer Medical Home Care Holding GmbH; MIG Holding GmbH
BWB/Z-6913
On 15.04.2025 the Austrian Federal Competition Authority was notified of the following merger:
Planned purchase process
HCCI (Bad Soden, Germany) intends to acquire a minority shareholding of more than 25% and - jointly with MIG Holding GmbH (Bad Soden, Germany) - control over Messer Medical Home Care Holding GmbH (Bad Soden, Germany). The proposed transaction concerns the market for homecare services.
Industry sector: Provision of homecare services.
R - HUMAN HEALTH AND SOCIAL WORK ACTIVITIES R 87 - Residential care activities, R 87.9 - Other residential care activities
Deadline for bringing in an application pursuant to § 11(1) Cartel Act will end on 13.05.2025.
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 14.05.2025 .