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Prior notification of a concentration (Case COMP/M.5721 — Otto/Primondo Assets) Text with EEA relevance
Date: 2010-01-12
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: distance selling, distribution business, economic concentration, exchange of information, financial services, merger control, provision of services, retail selling, wholesale trade








C_2010006EN.01001801.xml










12.1.2010   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


C 6/18





Prior notification of a concentration
(Case COMP/M.5721 — Otto/Primondo Assets)
(Text with EEA relevance)
2010/C 6/05






1.


On 18 December 2009, the Commission received a notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (1) by which the undertaking Otto GmbH & Co KG (Otto, Germany) and its subsidiaries PROVISTA Siebenhundertdreiundsiebzigste Verwaltungsgesellschaft (Germany), Otto Finance Cyprus Limited (Cyprus) und BIC Retail Enterprises, Inc (Cyprus) acquire within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 control of — various assets (trademarks and trademark applications, patents, domain names, copyrights and rights of use of client data) of the undertakings Primondo GmbH i.L. (in liquidation) (Germany), Quelle GmbH i.L. (Germany), Quelle.Contact Holding GmbH i.L. (Germany) and SB-Großhandels GmbH C+C Großhandel Objektausstattung i.L. (Germany), and — by way of purchase of shares over SAO Mail Order Service (Russia).










2.


The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:






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Otto: Trading and service company, which is internationally active in the retail (in particular home-shopping), financial services and services sector,










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Primondo GmbH i.L., Quelle GmbH i.L., Quelle.Contact Holding GmbH i.L. and SB-Großhandels GmbH C+C Großhandel Objektausstattung i.L. were active with the assets to be transferred in particular in the area of home-shopping in various EU Member States,










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SAO Mail Order Service is active in the area of home-shopping in Russia.














3.


On preliminary examination, the Commission finds that the notified transaction could fall within the scope of Regulation (EC) No 139/2004. However, the final decision on this point is reserved.










4.


The Commission invites interested third parties to submit their possible observations on the proposed operation to the Commission.
Observations must reach the Commission not later than 10 days following the date of this publication. Observations can be sent to the Commission by fax (+32 22964301 or 22967244) or by post, under reference number COMP/M.5721 — Otto/Primondo Assets, to the following address:





European Commission




Directorate-General for Competition




Merger Registry




1049 Bruxelles/Brussel




BELGIQUE/BELGIË










(1)  OJ L 24, 29.1.2004, p. 1.