CELEX: 32019M9620
Language: en
Date: 2019-12-09 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 09/12/2019 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.9620 - BRIDGEPOINT / VERMAAT) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
                                                                Brussels, 09.12.2019
                                                                C(2019) 8920 final
                                                                                 PUBLIC VERSION
                                                                To the notifying parties
Subject:        Case M.9620 – BRIDGEPOINT / VERMAAT
                Commission decision pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation
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                (EC) No 139/2004 and Article 57 of the Agreement on the European
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                Economic Area
Dear Sir or Madam,
1.      On 14 November 2019, the European Commission received notification of a proposed
        concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which Bridgepoint
        Group Limited (“Bridgepoint”, United Kingdom) acquires within the meaning of
        Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation sole control over Dutch Delight
        (Luxembourg) S.à.r.l. (Luxembourg) and its subsidiaries including Vermaat Groep
        B.V. (the Netherlands) (collectively referred to as “Vermaat”) by way of purchase of
        shares.3
2.      The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
              for Bridgepoint: invesment in established European middle market businesses
                 in a broad range of sectors, including consumer/retail, business services,
                 industrials, financial services, healthcare, media and technology.
              for Vermaat provides outsourced catering services to a variety of markets
                 including corporates, leisure, hospitals and travel hubs. It offers services in
                 over 350 food and beverage outlets, including restaurants, cafés, cafeterias,
                 canteens and convenience stores in the Netherlands and to a lesser extent in
                 Germany and Belgium.
3.      After examination of the notification, the European Commission has concluded that
        the notified operation falls within the scope of the Merger Regulation and of
1       OJ L 24, 29.1.2004, p. 1 (the ‘Merger Regulation’). With effect from 1 December 2009, the Treaty on
        the Functioning of the European Union (the ‘TFEU’) has introduced certain changes, such as the
        replacement of ‘Community’ by ‘Union’ and ‘common market’ by ‘internal market’. The terminology
        of the TFEU will be used throughout this decision.
2       OJ L 1, 3.1.1994, p. 3 (the ‘EEA Agreement’).
3       Publication in the Official Journal of the European Union No C 394, 21.11.2019, p. 10.
Commission européenne, DG COMP MERGER REGISTRY, 1049 Bruxelles, BELGIQUE
Europese Commissie, DG COMP MERGER REGISTRY, 1049 Brussel, BELGIË
Tel: +32 229-91111. Fax: +32 229-64301. E-mail: COMP-MERGER-REGISTRY@ec.europa.eu.
 ---pagebreak---    paragraph 5(c) of the Commission Notice on a simplified procedure for treatment of
   certain concentrations under Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004.4
4. For the reasons set out in the Notice on a simplified procedure, the European
   Commission has decided not to oppose the notified operation and to declare it
   compatible with the internal market and with the EEA Agreement. This decision is
   adopted in application of Article 6(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation and Article 57 of
   the EEA Agreement.
                                                  For the Commission
                                                  (Signed)
                                                  Cecilio MADERO VILLAREJO
                                                  Acting Director-General
4  OJ C 366, 14.12.2013, p. 5.
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