Merger Notification - Announcement according to § 10 Cartel Act
capiton VI GmbH & Co. Beteiligungs KG; Medical Business Center GmbH; ADL-Gruppe GmbH
BWB/Z-5315
On 19.03.2021 the Austrian Federal Competition Authority was notified of the following merger:
Planned purchase process
capiton VI GmbH & Co. Beteiligungs KG intends to indirectly acquire 52 % of the shares and (negative) sole control of Medical Business Center GmbH, Senden, Germany, as well as of ADL-Gruppe GmbH, Amt Wachsenburg, Germany.
Activity concerned: Wholesale of pharmaceutical goods; Retail sale of medical and orthopaedic goods in specialised stores
Industry sector: G - Handel; Instandhaltung und Reparatur von Kraftfahrzeugen
Deadline for bringing in an application pursuant to § 11(1) Cartel Act will end on 16.04.2021.
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 17.04.2021 .