Viridor Waste Management Ltd / Thames Waste Management Ltd

OFT closed case: Completed acquisition by Viridor Waste Management Ltd of an interest in Devon Waste Management Ltd.

• From: Competition and Markets Authority
• Published: 3 June 2004

• Case type: Mergers
• Case state: Closed
• Market sector: Distribution and service industries
• Outcome: Mergers - phase 1 found not to qualify
• Closed: 3 June 2004

Affected market: Waste management

No. ME/1678/04

On the basis of the information available to it, the Office of Fair Trading has decided that the completed acquisition by Viridor Waste Management Ltd of an interest in Devon Waste Management Ltd 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 3 June 2004