Informa Group plc / Taylor & Francis Group plc

OFT closed case: Anticipated merger between Informa Group plc and Taylor & Francis Group plc.

From:
Competition and Markets Authority
Published
25 April 2004
Case type:
Mergers
Case state:
Closed
Market sector:
Communications
Outcome:
Mergers - phase 1 found not to qualify
Closed:
25 April 2004

Affected market: Publishing

No. ME/1676/04

On the basis of the information available to it, the Office of Fair Trading has decided that the anticipated merger between Informa Group plc and Taylor & Francis Group plc 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 25 April 2004