Document ID: docfile:02b5081e-5720-4ec0-b637-5586aaf90a41
Source Database: euc_mergers
Source URL: https://ec.europa.eu/competition/mergers/cases/decisions/m7693_20150729_20310_4411758_EN.pdf
Title: APOLLO / VERALLIA GROUP
Date: 2015-07-29T00:00:00.000+02:00
Metadata: {"caseNumber": "M.7693", "caseInstrument": "M", "caseTitle": "APOLLO / VERALLIA GROUP", "caseLastDecisionDate": "2015-07-28T22:00:00.000Z", "caseCompanies": ["APOLLO / VERALLIA GROUP"]}

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# Case No COMP/M.7693 - APOLLO/ VERALLIA GROUP

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

#### Article 6(1)(b) NON-OPPOSITION Date: 29/07/2015

In electronic form on the EUR-Lex website under document number 32015M7693

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

#### **EUROPEAN COMMISSION**

#### Brussels, 29.07.2015 C(2015) 5498 final

#### **PUBLIC VERSION**

#### **SIMPLIFIED MERGER PROCEDURE**

To the notifying party:

Dear Sirs,

**Subject: Case M.7693 - APOLLO/ VERALLIA GROUP Commission decision pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 and Article 57 of the Agreement on the European Economic Area**

    On 6 July 2015, the European Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of the Merger Regulation by which the undertaking Horizon Holdings III S.A.S. (United Kingdom), controlled by investment funds managed by Apollo Management, L.P. (USA), acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation control of the whole of the undertakings Saint-Gobain Emballage S.A. (France), Saint-Gobain Vicasa S.A. (Spain), Saint-Gobain Vidros S.A. (Brazil) and Obale S.A.S. (France) which together form the speciality glass packaging activities of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain S.A. "Verallia" by way of purchase of shares.

[^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 229, 14.7.2015, 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.

The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

     Apollo Management, L.P. invests in companies and debt issued by companies involved in various businesses throughout the world, for example in the chemical, financial services, and media industries;

     Verallia manufactures and supplies glass bottles and jars for the food and beverage industries worldwide.

    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.

    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.

[^]: OJ C 366, 14.12.2013, p. 5.

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For the Commission (Signed) Alexander ITALIANER Director-General

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