Merger Notification - Announcement according to § 10 Cartel Act
Rather Outdoors Corporation; W.C. Bradley Zebco Holdings, Inc.
BWB/Z-5183
On 04.01.2021 the Austrian Federal Competition Authority was notified of the following merger:
Planned purchase process
Rather Outdoors Corporation (Lexington/United States), a portfolio company of the BDT funds, intends to acquire all shares in and sole control over W.C. Bradley/Zebco Holdings, Inc. (Tulsa/United States) and its subsidiaries. The proposed concentration concerns fishing equipment.
Affect industry: Other manufacturing.
Industry sector: C - Verarbeitendes Gewerbe/Herstellung von Waren
Deadline for bringing in an application pursuant to § 11(1) Cartel Act will end on 01.02.2021.
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 02.02.2021 .