Go-Ahead Group plc / Wilts and Dorset Investments Ltd

OFT closed case: Completed acquisition by the Go-Ahead Group plc of Wilts and Dorset Investments Ltd.

• From: Competition and Markets Authority
• Published: 14 September 2003

• Case type: Mergers
• Case state: Closed
• Market sector: Transport
• Outcome: Mergers - phase 1 found not to qualify
• Closed: 14 September 2003

Affected market: Bus passenger transport

No. ME/1343/03

On the basis of the information available to it, the Office of Fair Trading has decided that the completed acquisition of Wilts and Dorset Investments Ltd by The Go-Ahead Group does not qualify for investigation under the mergers provisions of the Enterprise Act 2002, 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 14 September 2003