Case No COMP/M.2324 - SANMINA CORPORATION / AB SEGERSTRÖM & SVENSSON

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REGULATION (EEC) No 4064/89 MERGER PROCEDURE

Article 6(1)(b) NON-OPPOSITION Date: 23/02/2001

Also available in the CELEX database Document No 301M2324

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COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

Brussels, 23.02.2001 SG(2001)D/286405

PUBLIC VERSION

MERGER PROCEDURE ARTICLE 6(1)(b) DECISION

SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURE

To the notifying party:

Dear Sirs,

1.On 26.01.2001, the Commission received notification of a proposed concentration pursuant to Article 4 of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 4064/89 by which the undertaking Sanmina Corporation (“Sanmina”), USA, acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Council Regulation control of the whole of undertaking AB Segerström & Svensson (“Segerström & Svensson”), Sweden, by way of a public bid announced on 26.01.2001.

The business activities of the undertakings concerned are:

-- for Sanmina : electronics manufacturing services to OEMs in the communication, industrial and medical instrumentation and computer industries, in particular, printed circuit boards (PCBs) and testing and assembly of completed systems; and

-- for Segerström & Svensson: mainly enclosure systems to the telecom, data communication and automobile industries.

1OJ L 395, 30.12.1989 p. 1; corrected version OJ L 257 of 21.9.1990, p. 13, as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1310/97, OJ L 180, 9.7.1997, p. 1, corrigendum in OJ L 40, 13.2.1998, p. 17.

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2.After examination of the notification, the Commission has concluded that the notified operation falls within the scope of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 4064/89 and of paragraph 4, subparagraph c, of the Commission Notice on a simplified procedure for treatment of certain concentrations under Council Regulation (EEC) No 4064/89.

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 (EEC) No. 4064/89.

For the Commission, (signed) Mario MONTI Member of the Commission

2OJ C 217, 29.07.2000, p. 32.

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