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current item indicator  2006 - 2002

Merger references to the Competition Commission

2006 - 2002 (Excluding Newspaper Mergers)


Title

Date referred

Date published
/laid aside

Competition Commission findings
Adverse effects identified
Lallemand UK Limited/LHS (Finings) Limited 14.01.02 20.03.02
Laid aside		 -
Linpac Group Limited / McKechnie Paxton Holdings Limited 04.01.02 13.05.02
 No
Neopost SA / Ascom Holding AG 10.01.02 23.05.02
 No
Cargill Incorporated / Cerestar SA 19.02.02 30.05.02
 No
Coloplast A/S / SSL International plc 14.01.02 14.06.02
 Yes
P&O Princess Cruises plc / Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd 29.01.02 19.06.02
 No
H+H Celcon Limited / Marley Building Materials Limited 13.02.02 26.06.02
 Yes
Compass Group PLC / Rail Gourmet Holding AG, Restorama AG, Gourmet Nova 26.03.02 05.07.02 No
Orbital Marketing / Surridge Dawson 15.07.02 16.08.02
Laid Aside 		-
Group 4 Falck A/S / The Wackenhut Corporation 09.05.02 22.10.02
 No
Vivendi Water UK PLC / First Aqua (JVCo) Limited 23.05.02 08.11.02
 Yes
Securicor Plc / Royal Mail Group Plc
Press Release		 08.11.02 20.12.02
Laid Aside
-
VNU Entertainment Media UK Limited / Book Data Limited 23.10.02 07.03.03

 No
Scottish Radio Holdings plc / GWR Group plc and Galaxy Radio Wales / the West Limited 13.01.03 16.05.03

 Yes
Centrica plc / Dynegy Storage Ltd and Dynegy Onshore Processing UK Ltd 25.02.03 01.08.03 Yes
J. Sainsbury plc / Springwater
 30.07.03 28.08.03
Laid Aside
 -
WBB / Tarmac Central Ltd
 		14.08.03 23.09.03
Cancelled 		-
Safeway plc / Asda Group Limited (owned by Wal-Mart Stores Inc); Wm Morrison Supermarkets PLC; J Sainsbury plc; and Tesco plc 19.03.03 26.09.03
 Yes
Carlton Communications Plc / Granada plc 11.03.03 07.10.03
 Yes
Arla Foods amba / Express Dairies plc 07.07.03 15.10.03
 No
Unum Limited / Swiss Life (UK) plc
 31.10.03 25.11.03
Cancelled
 -
AAH Pharmaceuticals Limited / East Anglian Pharmaceuticals Limited 03.12.03 23.12.03
Cancelled		 -
March UK Ltd / The home shopping and home delivery businesses of GUS plc / Past inquiries 25.09.03 22.01.04 No

Title

Date referred

Date published
/ cancelled

Competition Commission findings
Substantial lessening of competition identified
Stena AB and P&O
22.08.03

 

 05.02.04 Yes
National Milk Records Plc / Cattle Information Service Ltd
03.03.04

 

 18.03.04
Cancelled 		-
ConvaTec Limited / Acordis Speciality Fibres Limited 12.02.04

 

 29.03.04
Cancelled 		-
Carl Zeiss GmbH / Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc
30.12.03

 

 17.05.04 No
Dräger Medical AG / Co Kga A / Air-Shields
18.12.03

 

 19.05.04 Yes
FirstGroup plc / ScotRail Railways Limited 13.01.04

 

 28.06.04 Yes
DS Smith plc / LINPAC Containers Limited 20.05.04

 

 21.10.04 No
National Express Group PLC / Greater Anglia Franchise 27.05.04 04.11.04 No
Anglo American plc / Johnston Group PLC 29.09.04 08.11.04
Cancelled 		-
Knauf Insulation Limited / Superglass Insulation Limited 17.06.04 26.11.04
 Yes
Taminco N.V. / Air Products (Chemicals) Teesside Ltd 16.07.04 29.11.04
 No
Arriva plc / Sovereign Bus & Coach Company Ltd 03.08.04 07.01.05
 No
Emap plc / ABI Building Data Ltd 01.07.04 26.01.05
 Yes
Arcelor SA / Corus UK Limited 10.09.04 10.02.05
 No
LINK Interchange Network Limited / Transaction Network Services (UK) Limited 27.01.05 18.02.05
Cancelled
 -
Bretagne-Angleterre-Irlande S.A. / P&O 07.12.04 04.03.05
Cancelled		 -
Serviced Dispense Equipment Limited (SDEL) / Coors Brewers Limited (Coors) 29.09.04 11.03.05 Yes
Napier Brown Foods plc / James Budgett Sugars Ltd 12.10.04 15.03.05 No
Firstgroup plc / InterCity East Coast Franchise 21.12.04 11.04.05
Cancelled		 -
Future plc / Highbury House plc 14.04.05 28.04.05
Cancelled		 -
Francisco Partners LP / G International Inc 22.03.05 02.09.05 No
Somerfield plc / Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc 23.03.05 02.09.05 Yes
Bucher Industries AG / Johnston Sweepers Limited 06.04.05 15.09.05 No
London Stock Exchange plc 29.03.05 01.11.05 Yes
Robert Wiseman Dairies plc / Scottish Milk Dairies Limited 19.10.05 04.11.05
Cancelled		 -
South West Airports Ltd / Exeter and Devon Airport Ltd 11.10.95 04.11.05
Cancelled		 -
British Salt / New Cheshire Salt Works 24.05.05 08.11.05
 No
Ardagh International Holdings / Redfearn Glass 01.08.05 20.12.05
 No
National Express Group / Thameslink / Great Northern Rail Franchise 03.08.05 22.12.05
 No
Vue Entertainment Holdings (UK) Limited / A3 Cinema Limited 23.09.05 24.02.06
 Yes
Greater Western Passenger Rail Franchise 30.09.05 08.03.06
 No
Heinz / HP Foods Group 26.10.05 24.03.06
 No
Safenet inc / nCipher plc 30.03.06 21.04.06
Cancelled
 -
Macaw (Holdings) Ltd / Cott Beverages Ltd 28.11.05 28.04.06

 No
HMV Group plc / Waterstone's plc / Ottakar's plc 06.12.05 12.05.06

 No

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