Merger Notification - Announcement according to § 10 Cartel Act
Platinum Equity Small Cap Fund II, L.P.; Czarnowski Display Service, Inc.
BWB/Z-7159
On 02.12.2025 the Austrian Federal Competition Authority was notified of the following merger:
Planned purchase process
Platinum Equity Small Cap Fund II, USA, an investment fund affiliated with the Platinum Equity Group, intends to acquire indirectly all shares in and sole control over Czarnowski Display Service, Inc., USA, including its worldwide subsidiaries. The intended concentration concerns marketing communications services.
ÖNACE Code: Advertising.
N - PROFESSIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL ACTIVITIES N 73 - Activities of advertising, market research and public relations, N 73.1 - Advertising, N 73.11 - Activities of advertising agencies, N 73.12 - Media representation
Deadline for bringing in an application pursuant to § 11(1) Cartel Act will end on 30.12.2025.
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 31.12.2025 .