Merger Notification - Announcement according to § 10 Cartel Act
Arabica Holding AB; EQT Services (UK) Limited; PIAB Group Holding AB
BWB/Z-2894
On the Austrian Federal Competition Authority was notified of the following merger:
Planned purchase process
EQT Services (UK) Limited (London, United Kingdom) intends to acquire the majority of the shares and sole control over PIAB Group Holding AB (Täby, Sweden) and its subsidiaries. The concentration concerns products for vacuum automation and vacuum conveying (industrial production).
Industry sector: C - Verarbeitendes Gewerbe/Herstellung von Waren
Deadline for bringing in an application pursuant to § 11(1) Cartel Act will end on 13.01.2016.
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 13.01.2016 .