CELEX: 32019M9328
Language: en
Date: 2019-06-11 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 11/06/2019 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.9328 - Platinum Equity Advisors, LLC / Multi-Color Corporation) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
                                                                Brussels, 11.06.2019
                                                                C(2019) 4460 final
                                                                                 PUBLIC VERSION
                                                                To the notifying party
Subject:        Case M.9328 – PLATINUM EQUITY GROUP / MULTI-COLOR
                CORPORATION
                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 8 May 2019, the European Commission received notification of a proposed
        concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which Platinum
        Equity Group (‘Platinum Equity’, United States), acquires within the meaning of
        Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation sole control of the whole of Multi-Color
        Corporation (‘MCC’, United States) by way of purchase of shares.3
2.      The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
              for Platinum Equity: merger, acquisition and operation of companies that
                 provide services and solutions to customers in a broad range of businesses,
                 including information technology, telecommunication, logistics, metal
                 services, manufacturing and distribution;
              for MCC: manufacture and supply of labels to commercial customers across a
                 range of sectors, including: home and personal care, food and beverage,
                 healthcare, specialty, consumer durables, and wine and spirits.
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 177, 23.5.2019, p. 58.
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 6 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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