Merger Notification - Announcement according to § 10 Cartel Act
VTG Aktiengesellschaft; Andreas Groer; AAE Ahaus-Alstätter Eisenbahn Holding AG
BWB/Z-2491
On the Austrian Federal Competition Authority was notified of the following merger:
Planned purchase process
Acquisition of all shares of AAE Ahaus-Alstätter Eisenbahn Holding AG (Baar, Switzerland) from Mr. Andreas Groer (Baar, Switzerland) by corporation VTG (Hamburg, Germany); acquisition of 25.62% of the shares of VTG AG by Mr. Andreas Groer. The merger plan concerns the renting by railway freight car for dry goods.
Industry sector: C - Verarbeitendes Gewerbe/Herstellung von Waren
Deadline for bringing in an application pursuant to § 11(1) Cartel Act will end on 09.12.2014.
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 09.12.2014 .