Cardpoint plc / Moneybox plc

OFT closed case: Completed acquisition by Cardpoint plc of Moneybox plc.

• From: Competition and Markets Authority
• Published: 28 September 2005

• Case type: Mergers
• Case state: Closed
• Market sector: Electronics
• Outcome: Mergers - phase 1 found not to qualify
• Closed: 28 September 2005

Affected market: ATM Machines

No. ME/1934/05

On the basis of the information available to it, the Office of Fair Trading has decided that the completed acquisition of Cardpoint plc by Moneybox 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 28 September 2005