Premier Foods / Cauldron Foods

OFT closed case: Completed acquisition by Premier Foods plc of Cauldron Foods Ltd.

• From: Competition and Markets Authority
• Published: 15 December 2005

• Case type: Mergers
• Case state: Closed
• Market sector: Food manufacturing
• Outcome: Mergers - phase 1 found not to qualify
• Closed: 15 December 2005

Affected market: Manufacture of food products and beverages, vegetarian foods

No. ME/2124/05

On the basis of the information available to it, the Office of Fair Trading has decided that the completed acquisition by Premier Foods plc of Cauldron Foods Ltd does not qualify for investigation under the merger 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 15 December 2005