CCL Industries (UK) Ltd / RAR SA

OFT closed case: Anticipated joint venture between CCL Industries (UK) Ltd and RAR, SA.

• From: Competition and Markets Authority
• Published: 20 July 2004

• Case type: Mergers
• Case state: Closed
• Market sector: Paper printing and packaging
• Outcome: Mergers - phase 1 found not to qualify
• Closed: 20 July 2004

Affected market: Aerosol products

No. ME/1137/04

On the basis of the information available to it, the Office of Fair Trading has decided that the anticipated joint venture between CCL Industries (UK) Ltd and RAR, SA 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 20 July 2004