Merger Notification - Announcement according to § 10 Cartel Act

Schur Flexibles Holding GesmbH; Hänsel Flexible Packaging GmbH; Cats Flexible Packaging BV; Nimax BV - BWB/Z-3839 | Bundeswettbewerbsbehörde

Schur Flexibles Holding GesmbH; Hänsel Flexible Packaging GmbH; Cats Flexible Packaging BV; Nimax BV

BWB/Z-3839

23.02.2018

On 23.02.2018 the Austrian Federal Competition Authority was notified of the following merger:

Planned purchase process

Schur Flexibles Holding GesmbH (Baden, Austria) intends to indirectly acquire sole control over (i) Hänsel Flexible Packaging GmbH (Freital, Germany), (ii) Cats Flexible Packaging BV (Rotterdam, The Netherlands) and (iii) Nimax BV (Elst, The Netherlands). The intended concentration concerns the manufacturing of flexible packaging.

Industry sector: C - Verarbeitendes Gewerbe/Herstellung von Waren

Deadline for bringing in an application pursuant to § 11(1) Cartel Act will end on 23.03.2018.

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 24.03.2018 .

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