CELEX: 32019M9249
Language: en
Date: 2019-02-06 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 06/02/2019 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.9249 - Triton Managers V Limited / Sunweb Group) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
                                                                Brussels, 6.2.2019
                                                                C(2019) 1004 final
                                                                  PUBLIC VERSION
                                                                To the notifying parties
Subject:        Case M.9249 – Triton/Sunweb
                Commission decision pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC)
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                No 139/2004 and Article 57 of the Agreement on the European Economic Area
Dear Sir or Madam,
1.      On 14 January 2019, the European Commission received notification of a proposed
        concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation, by which Triton Managers V
        Limited (Jersey) and Triton Fund V GP S.à r.l. (Luxembourg), both belonging to the group
        Triton (‘Triton’, Channel Islands), acquire within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the
        Merger Regulation sole control of the whole of the group Sunweb (‘Sunweb’), via Holiday
        Holding Rotterdam B.V. (the Netherlands), by way of purchase of shares.3
2.      The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
             for Triton: group of independent European private equity funds and companies,
              dedicated to investing primarily in medium-sized businesses headquartered in
              Northern Europe, with a focus on businesses in three core sectors: Business Services,
              Industrials and Consumer/Health,
             for Sunweb: European online tour operator, providing packaged holidays to 20+ focal
              destinations across Europe and the Mediterranean.
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 (‘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 27, 22.01.2019, p. 14.
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--- 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 paragraph 5(b) 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)
                                                    Johannes LAITENBERGER
                                                    Director-General
4  OJ C 366, 14.12.2013, p. 5.
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