Document ID: docfile:1ff187f9-65ca-42be-bd70-cbaf605ce120
Source Database: euc_mergers
Source URL: https://ec.europa.eu/competition/mergers/cases/decisions/m3315_en.pdf
Title: INVESTCORP GROUP / HILDING ANDERS AB
Date: 2003-12-17T00:00:00.000+01:00
Metadata: {"caseNumber": "M.3315", "caseInstrument": "M", "caseTitle": "INVESTCORP GROUP / HILDING ANDERS AB", "caseLastDecisionDate": "2003-12-16T23:00:00.000Z", "caseCompanies": ["INVESTCORP GROUP / HILDING ANDERS AB"]}

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# Case No COMP/M.3315 - INVESTCORP GROUP / HILDING ANDERS AB

Only the English text is available and authentic.

#### **REGULATION (EEC) No 4064/89 MERGER PROCEDURE**

#### Article 6(1)(b) NON-OPPOSITION Date: 17/12/2003

#### Also available in the CELEX database Document No 303M3315

[^]: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities L-2985 Luxembourg

#### **COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES**

#### Brussels, 17.12.2003

#### SG (2003) D/233558

#### **MERGER PROCEDURE ARTICLE 6(1)(b) DECISION**

#### **SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURE**

#### **PUBLIC VERSION**

To the notifying party

Dear Madam and Sir,

**Subject: Case No. COMP/M3315-Investcorp Group/Hilding Anders AB Notification of 19.11.2003 pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 4064/89, as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1310/97 Publication in the Official Journal of the European Union No. C 284, 27.11.2003, page 7**

    On 19.11.2003, the Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 4064/89 by which the Investcorp Group (ìInvestcorpî, Kingdom of Bahrain) acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Council Regulation control of the whole of the undertaking Hilding Anders AB (ìHilding Andersî, Sweden) by way of purchase of shares.

The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

    - for Investcorp: international investment company,

    - for Hilding Anders: development, manufacture and sale of beds, mattresses and related products.

    After examination of the notification, the Commission has concluded that the notified operation falls within the scope of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 4064/89 and of

[^1]: OJ L 395, 30.12.1989 p. 1; corrigendum: OJ L 257, 21.9.1990, p. 13.

[^2]: OJ L 180, 9. 7. 1997, p. 1; corrigendum OJ L 40, 13.2.1998, p. 17.

[^]: Commission europÈenne, B-1049 Bruxelles / Europese Commissie, B-1049 Brussel - Belgium. Telephone: (32-2) 299 11 11.

paragraph 4, subparagraph c of the Commission Notice on a simplified procedure for treatment of certain concentrations under Council Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89 .

For the reasons set out in the Notice on a simplified procedure, the Commission has decided not to oppose the notified operation and to declare it compatible with the common market and with the EEA Agreement. This decision is adopted in application of Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 4064/89.

For the Commission Mario MONTI, signed Member of the Commission

[^3]: OJ C 217, 29.07.2000, p. 32.

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