CELEX: 32022M10551
Language: en
Date: 2022-01-10 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 10/01/2022 declaring a concentration to be compatible with the common market (Case No COMP/M.10551 - AMALFI INVEST OPPORTUNITIES / LA DORIA) according to Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (Only the English text is authentic)

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
                                                                Brussels, 10.1.2022
                                                                C(2022) 175 final
                                                                                 PUBLIC VERSION
                                                                Amalfi Invest Opportunities S.à r.l.
                                                                23 Avenue Monterey
                                                                L-2163 Luxembourg
Subject:        Case M.10551 – AMALFI INVEST OPPORTUNITIES / LA DORIA
                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 7 December 2021, the European Commission received notification of a proposed
        concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which the
        undertaking Amalfi Invest Opportunities S.à r.l. (‘AIO’, Luxembourg), ultimately
        controlled by Investindustrial S.A. (‘Investindustrial’, Luxembourg), acquires within
        the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation control of the whole of
        undertaking La Doria S.p.A. (‘La Doria’, Italy), ultimately controlled by certain
        members of the Ferraioli Family, by way of purchase of shares.3
2.      The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:
             − for Investindustrial (and its subsidiary AIO): investments in medium-sized
                 companies based in Europe, including Italy, Portugal, Spain, and the United
                 Kingdom, focusing on four main investment areas: consumer and leisure,
                 healthcare and services, industrial manufacturing and technology;
             − for La Doria: active worldwide in the production and marketing of food
                 products, particularly in the vegetable and juices processing sector.
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 505, 15.12.2021, p. 5.
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(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)
                                                  Olivier GUERSENT
                                                  Director-General
4  OJ C 366, 14.12.2013, p. 5.
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