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REGULATION (EEC) No 139/2004 MERGER PROCEDURE

Article 6(1)(b) NON-OPPOSITION Date: 05/11/2004

Also available in the CELEX database Document No 32004M3580

Office for Official Publications of the European Communities L-2985 Luxembourg

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

Brussels, 05/11/2004

SG-Greffe(2004) D/205105

PUBLIC VERSION

MERGER PROCEDURE ARTICLE 6(1)(b) DECISION

SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURE

To the notifying party

Dear Madam(s) and/or Sir(s),

Subject: Case No. COMP/M.3580 ñ Cinven/CBR Notification of 04/10/2004 pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No.

1139/20041 Publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities No. C 252 0003, 12.10.2004, page 3.

1.On 04 October 2004, the Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No. 139/2004 Cinven Ltd. (ìCinvenî, UK) acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Council Regulation control of the whole of the undertakings CBR Holding GmbH & Co. KG, Street One GmbH & Co. KG, Cecil GmbH & Co. KG, One Touch GmbH & Co. KG, CBR Companies GmbH& Co. KG, Street One Markenrecht GmbH & Co. KG, Cecil Markenrecht GmbH & Co. KG and One Touch Markenrecht GmbH & Co. KG (ìCBR Groupî, Germany) by way of purchase of shares..

The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

-- for Cinven: financial investment;

-- for CBR Group: design and wholesale distribution of womenís apparel.

1OJ L 24, 29.1.2004 p. 1.

Commission europÈenne, B-1049 Bruxelles / Europese Commissie, B-1049 Brussel - Belgium. Telephone: (32-2) 299 11 11.

2.After examination of the notification, the Commission has concluded that the notified operation falls within the scope of Council Regulation (EC) No. 139/2004 and of paragraph 5, subparagraph b, of the Commission Notice on a simplified procedure for treatment of certain concentrations under Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004.

For the reasons set out in the Notice on a simplified procedure, the Commission has decided not to oppose the notified operation and to declare it compatible with the common market and with the EEA Agreement. This decision is adopted in application of Article 6(1)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No. 139/2004.

For the Commission

(signed) Mario MONTI Member of the Commission

2Available on DG COMP website: http://europa.eu.int/comm/competition/mergers/legislation/consultation/simplified_tru.pdf.

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