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Merger references to the Competition Commission (from 2000 onwards)


Reference

Date referred

Date completed / laid aside

Competition Commission findings
Adverse effects identified
Granada/United News & Media/Carlton Communications 08.02.00/
25.02.00		 16.06.00 No (Granada)
Yes (Carlton)
Independent News & Media and Trinity Mirror 29.03.00 17.07.00
No
Air Canada/Canadian Airlines 02.05.00 31.08.00 No
Sylvan International Ltd/Locker Group plc 01.06.00 02.11.00 Yes
BUPA/Community Hospitals Group 12.06.00 07.12.00 Yes
Regional Independent Media Holdings/Gannett/Johnston Press/Guardian Media Group 13.07.00 01.11.00
No
Nutreco Holding NV/Hydro Seafood GSP Ltd 17.07.00 22.12.00 Yes
BUPA/Salomon International LLC/Community Hospitals Group 08.08.00 07.12.00 Yes
Interbrew SA/Bass PLC 07.09.00 03.01.01 Yes
Grundfos/Myson Pumps
Press release/ Past inquiries		 2.10.00 09.11.00
Laid aside		 -
Icopal Holding A/S/Icopal a/s 24.11.00 13.03.01 No
BASF AG/Takeda Chemical Industries Ltd 15.12.00 04.07.01 No
City Techonology / Marconi Applied Technologies Limited 21/12/00 12/03/01 (Laid aside)  
SCR-Sibelco SA/Fife Silica Sands Ltd/Fife Resources Ltd 09.01.01 04.07.01 Yes
Reed Elsevier Plc/Harcourt General, Inc 21.02.01 05.07.01 No
Lloyds TSB Group plc/Abbey National plc 23.02.01 10.07.01 Yes
General Healthcare Group/Community Hospitals Group 20.03.01 30.05.01
Laid aside		 -
Octagon Motorsports Ltd/British Racing Drivers Club Ltd 17.04.01 06.09.01  
Blockbuster/ Apollo Video 02.05.01 23.05.01
Laid aside		 -
Duralay International Holdings Ltd/Gates Consumer & International 28.06.01 09.11.01 No
HCA International/London Heart Hospital 20.07.01 15.08.01
Laid aside		 -
Eastman Kodak Company and ColourCare Limited 16.08.01 21.12.01
 No
Hilton Group/British Sky Broadcasting Group 10.10.01 15.11.01
Laid aside		 -
Johnston Press plc and Trinity Mirror plc 22.11.01 03.05.02
Yes
Linpac Group Limited / McKechnie Paxton Holdings Limited 04.01.02 13.05.02
 No
Neopost SA / Ascom Holding AG 10.01.02 23.05.02
 No
Coloplast A/S / SSL International plc 14.01.02 14.06.02
 Yes
Lallemand UK Limited/LHS (Finings) Limited 14.01.02 20.03.02
Laid aside		 -
P&O Princess Cruises plc / Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd 29.01.02 19.06.02
 No
H+H Celcon Limited / Marley Building Materials Limited 13.02.02 26.06.02
 Yes
Cargill Incorporated / Cerestar SA 19.02.02 30.05.02
 No
Compass Group PLC / Rail Gourmet Holding AG, Restorama AG, Gourmet Nova 26.03.02 05.07.02 No
Group 4 Falck A/S / The Wackenhut Corporation 09.05.02 22.10.02
 No
Vivendi Water UK PLC / First Aqua (JVCo) Limited 23.05.02 08.11.02
 Yes
Bidvest PLC and Brake Bros PLC
 24.05.02 24.07.02 Laid Aside  
Orbital Marketing / Surridge Dawson 15.07.02 16.08.02
Laid Aside 		-
VNU Entertainment Media UK Limited / Book Data Limited 23.10.02 07.03.03

 No
Securicor Plc / Royal Mail Group Plc
Press Release		 08.11.02 20.12.02
Laid Aside
-
Gannett UK Limited and SMG plc 10.12.02 28.03.03
No
Scottish Radio Holdings plc / GWR Group plc and Galaxy Radio Wales / the West Limited 13.01.03 16.05.03

 Yes
Centrica plc / Dynegy Storage Ltd and Dynegy Onshore Processing UK Ltd 25.02.03 01.08.03 Yes
Carlton Communications Plc / Granada plc 11.03.03 07.10.03
 Yes
Safeway plc / Asda Group Limited (owned by Wal-Mart Stores Inc); Wm Morrison Supermarkets PLC; J Sainsbury plc; and Tesco plc 19.03.03 26.09.03
 Yes
Newsquest (London) Limited and Independent News & Media PLC 20.05.03 21.10.03
Yes
J. Sainsbury plc / Springwater
 30.07.03 28.08.03
Laid Aside
 -
WBB / Tarmac Central Ltd
 		14.08.03 23.09.03
Cancelled 		-
Arla Foods amba / Express Dairies plc 07.07.03 15.10.03
 No
March UK Ltd / The home shopping and home delivery businesses of GUS plc / Past inquiries 25.09.03 22.01.04 No
Unum Limited / Swiss Life (UK) plc
 31.10.03 25.11.03
Cancelled
 -
AAH Pharmaceuticals Limited / East Anglian Pharmaceuticals Limited 03.12.03 23.12.03
Cancelled		 -

Reference

Date referred

Date completed
/ cancelled

Competition Commission findings
Substantial lessening of competition identified
Stena AB and P&O
22.08.03

 

 05.02.04 Yes
Dräger Medical AG / Co Kga A / Air-Shields
18.12.03

 

 19.05.04 Yes
Carl Zeiss GmbH / Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc
30.12.03

 

 17.05.04 No
FirstGroup plc / ScotRail Railways Limited 13.01.04

 

 28.06.04 Yes
ConvaTec Limited / Acordis Speciality Fibres Limited 12.02.04

 

 29.03.04
Cancelled 		-
National Milk Records Plc / Cattle Information Service Ltd
03.03.04

 

 18.03.04
Cancelled 		-
Archant Limited and the London newspapers of Independent News and Media Limited 29.04.04 22.09.04
No
DS Smith plc / LINPAC Containers Limited 20.05.04

 

 21.10.04 No
National Express Group PLC / Greater Anglia Franchise 27.05.04 04.11.04 No
Knauf Insulation Limited / Superglass Insulation Limited 17.06.04 26.11.04
 Yes
Emap plc / ABI Building Data Ltd 01.07.04 26.01.05
 Yes
Taminco N.V. / Air Products (Chemicals) Teesside Ltd 16.07.04 29.11.04
 No
Arriva plc / Sovereign Bus & Coach Company Ltd 03.08.04 07.01.05
 No
Arcelor SA / Corus UK Limited 10.09.04 10.02.05
 No
Anglo American plc / Johnston Group PLC 29.09.04 08.11.04
Cancelled 		-
Serviced Dispense Equipment Limited (SDEL) / Coors Brewers Limited (Coors) 29.09.04 11.03.05 Yes
Napier Brown Foods plc / James Budgett Sugars Ltd 12.10.04 15.03.05 No
Bretagne-Angleterre-Irlande S.A. / P&O 07.12.04 04.03.05
Cancelled		 -
Firstgroup plc / InterCity East Coast Franchise 21.12.04 11.04.05
Cancelled		 -
LINK Interchange Network Limited / Transaction Network Services (UK) Limited 27.01.05 18.02.05
Cancelled
 -
Francisco Partners LP / G International Inc 22.03.05 02.09.05 No
Somerfield plc / Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc 23.03.05 02.09.05 Yes
London Stock Exchange plc 29.03.05 01.11.05 Yes
Bucher Industries AG / Johnston Sweepers Limited 06.04.05 15.09.05 No
Future plc / Highbury House plc 14.04.05 28.04.05
Cancelled		 -
British Salt / New Cheshire Salt Works 24.05.05 08.11.05
 No
Ardagh International Holdings / Redfearn Glass 01.08.05 20.12.05
 No
National Express Group / Thameslink / Great Northern Rail Franchise 03.08.05 22.12.05
 No
Vue Entertainment Holdings (UK) Limited / A3 Cinema Limited 23.09.05 24.02.06
 Yes
Greater Western Passenger Rail Franchise 30.09.05 08.03.06
 No
South West Airports Ltd / Exeter and Devon Airport Ltd 11.10.95 04.11.05
Cancelled		 -
Robert Wiseman Dairies plc / Scottish Milk Dairies Limited 19.10.05 04.11.05
Cancelled		 -
Heinz / HP Foods Group 26.10.05 24.03.06
 No
Macaw (Holdings) Ltd / Cott Beverages Ltd 28.11.05 28.04.06

 No
HMV Group plc / Waterstone's plc / Ottakar's plc 06.12.05 12.05.06

 No
EWS Railway Holdings / Marcroft Engineering 06.02.06 12.09.06 Yes
Stagecoach / Scottish Citylink 15.03.06 23.10.06
 Yes
Safenet inc / nCipher plc 30.03.06 21.04.06
Cancelled
 -
Stericycle International LLC / Sterile Technologies Group Limited 28.06.06 12.12.06
 Yes
Pan Fish ASA / Marine Harvest N.V. 06.07.06 18.12.06
 No
Christie Brockbank Shipton (CBS) Private Capital Ltd / Hampden Agencies Ltd 14.07.06 01.12.06
 No
IPC Media Ltd / Horse Deals Ltd 16.08.06 30.08.06
Cancelled
-
Hamsard 2786 Ltd / Academy Music Holdings Ltd 21.08.06 23.01.07
 Yes
SvitzerWijsmuller A/S / Adsteam Marine Limited 31.08.06 09.02.07
 Yes
Stonegate Farmers Ltd / Deans Food Group Ltd 13.09.06 20.04.07
 Yes
Mid-Kent Water/South-East Water 16.11.06 01.05.07
 Yes
Wienerberger Finance BV / Baggeridge Brick plc 11.12.06 10.05.07
 No
Thermo Electron Manufacturing Limited / GV Instruments Limited 15.12.06 30.05.07
 Yes
Kemira GrowHow Oyj / Terra Industries Inc. 26.01.07 11.07.07
 Yes
MDA / Quest Associates 14.02.07 27.02.07 Cancelled
-
Greif Inc / Blagden Packaging Group 21.02.07 17.08.07
 No
Woolworths Group plc / Bertram Group Ltd. 03.04.07 04.09.07
 No
Tesco / Co-op store acquisition in Slough 19.04.07 28.11.07
 Yes
Sportech plc / Vernons 03.05.07 11.10.07
 No
G4s Cash Services / Abbotshurst Group (Security Plus) 18.05.07 06.06.07
Cancelled
-
BSkyB / ITV 24.05.07 02.01.08
 -
Polypipe Building Products Limited / Verplas Limited 11.07.07 03.08.07
Cancelled
-
Macquarie UK Broadcast Ventures Limited / National Grid Wireless Group 08.08.07 11.03.08
 Yes
GAME Group plc / Game Station Limited 09.08.07 16.01.08
 No
CineWorld Group Plc / Hollywood Green Leisure Park, Wood Green 17.03.08 02.04.08
Cancelled		 -
BOC Limited / Ineos Chlor Limited 29.05.08 18.12.08 Yes
Project 'Kangaroo' 30.06.08 04.02.09 Yes
Nufarm / AH Marks 29.08.08 10.02.09 Yes
Hospedia / Premier 07.10.08 30.10.08
Cancelled		 -
Long Clawson / Millway 08.10.08 14.01.09 No
Capita / IBS 19.11.08 04.06.09 Yes
Holland & Barrett / Julian Graves 20.03.09 20.08.09 No
Stagecoach / Eastbourne Buses 13.05.09 22/10/09 No
Stagecoach / Preston Bus 28.05.09    
Live Nation / Ticketmaster 10.06.09    
Sports Direct / JJB Sports 07.08.09 16.03.10 No
RMIG Limited / Ash & Lacy Perforators Limited 26.08.09 08.09.09
Cancelled		 -
Brightsolid / Friends Reunited 03.11.09 18.03.10 No
Zipcar Streetcar 10.08.10 22.12.10 No
MBL / TrigoldCrystal 17.03.11 01.09.11 No

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