Merger Notification - Announcement according to § 10 Cartel Act
MTH Retail Group Holding GmbH; OFFIX Holding AG
BWB/Z-5247
On 03.02.2021 the Austrian Federal Competition Authority was notified of the following merger:
Planned purchase process
OFFICE WORLD Holding AG (Switzerland), a subsidiary of MTH Retail Group Holding GmbH (Austria), and OFFIX Holding AG (Switzerland), a subsidiary of PEG Papeteristen-Einkaufsgenossenschaft (Switzerland), intend to jointly establish a Swiss stock corporation and to contribute and transfer their respective shares in the subsidiaries - OFFICE World Holding AG: OWIBA AG (Switzerland) and Tramondi Büro AG (Switzerland); OFFIX Holding AG: Ecomedia AG (Switzerland), Papedis AG (Switzerland), DocuServ AG (Switzerland) and OFFICE LEADER AG (Switzerland) - into this newly established company. This transaction as well as the future cooperation shall be regulated by a transaction and shareholders agreement. This merger concerns the trade with non-food products.
Industry sector: Wholesale and retail trade; repari of motor vehicles and motorcycles.
Industry sector: G - Handel; Instandhaltung und Reparatur von Kraftfahrzeugen
Deadline for bringing in an application pursuant to § 11(1) Cartel Act will end on 03.03.2021.
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 04.03.2021 .