Macquarie Industrial Investments Netherlands B.V. / Dyno Nobel Holding ASA

OFT closed case: Completed acquisition by Macquarie Industrial Investments Netherlands B.V. of Dyno Nobel Holding ASA

• From: Competition and Markets Authority
• Published: 10 January 2006

• Case type: Mergers
• Case state: Closed
• Market sector: Engineering
• Outcome: Mergers - phase 1 found not to qualify
• Closed: 10 January 2006

Affected market: Expolosives and initiation systems

No. ME/2157/05

On the basis of the information available to it, the Office of Fair Trading has decided that the completed acquisition of Dyno Nobel Holding ASA by Macquarie Industrial Investments Netherlands B.V. 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 10 January 2006