Admiral Pub Company / Enterprise Inns plc

OFT closed case: Completed acquisition of 239 pubs by Admiral Pub Company from Enterprise Inns plc.

• From: Competition and Markets Authority
• Published: 22 July 2004

• Case type: Mergers
• Case state: Closed
• Market sector: Recreation and leisure
• Outcome: Mergers - phase 1 found not to qualify
• Closed: 22 July 2004

Affected market: Pubs

No. ME/1168/04

On the basis of the information available to it, the Office of Fair Trading has decided that the Completed acquisition of 239 pubs by Admiral Pub Company from Enterprise Inns plc does not qualify for investigation under the mergers provisions of the Enterprise Act 2002 (the Act), because neither the UK turnover test nor the share of supply test in section 23 of the Act is met.  A relevant merger situation has, therefore, not been created.

Published 22 July 2004