Document ID: docfile:7df8d89d-b540-49b9-9341-ae889c4eefed
Source Database: euc_mergers
Source URL: https://ec.europa.eu/competition/mergers/cases/decisions/m4535_20070226_20310_en.pdf
Title: CHARTERHOUSE / VIVARTE
Date: 2007-02-26T00:00:00.000+01:00
Metadata: {"caseNumber": "M.4535", "caseInstrument": "M", "caseTitle": "CHARTERHOUSE / VIVARTE", "caseLastDecisionDate": "2007-02-25T23:00:00.000Z", "caseCompanies": ["CHARTERHOUSE / VIVARTE", "CHATERHOUSE / VIVARTE"]}

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# Case No COMP/M.4535 - CHARTERHOUSE  / VIVARTE

Only the English text is available and authentic.

#### **REGULATION (EC) No 139/2004 MERGER PROCEDURE**

#### Article 6(1)(b) NON-OPPOSITION Date: 26/02/2007

In electronic form on the EUR-Lex website under document number 32007M4535

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

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

Brussels, 26/02/2007

[^]: SG-Greffe(2007) D/200900

#### **PUBLIC VERSION**

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

#### **SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURE**

To the notifying party

Dear Madam(s) and/or Sir(s),

**Subject: Case No. COMP/M.4535 ñ Charterhouse / Vivarte Notification of 25.01.2007 pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No. 139/2004 Publication in the Official Journal of the European Union No. C 23, 01/02/2007**

    On 25/01/2007 the Commission received a notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 by which Charterhouse Capital Limited (ìCharterhouseî, United Kingdom) acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Council Regulation sole control of Novarte SAS ("Novarte"; France) the ultimate parent company of the Vivarte Group (ìVivarte", France), by way of purchase of shares.

The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

    - Charterhouse : equity capital

[^1]: OJ L 24, 29.1.2004 p. 1

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

    - Vivarte : retailing of footwear and clothing

    After examination of the notification, the Commission has concluded that the notified operation falls within the scope of Council Regulation (EC) No. 139/2004 and of paragraph 5, subparagraph b of the Commission Notice on a simplified procedure for treatment of certain concentrations under Council Regulation (EC) No. 139/2004.

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 (EC) No. 139/2004.

For the Commission signed Philip LOWE Director General

[^2]: OJ C 56, 05.3.2005 p.32

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