Completed acquisition by the Go-Ahead Group plc of Wilts and Dorset Investments Ltd

Affected market: Bus passenger transport

No. ME/1343/03

The parties notified the transaction on 19 August 2003. The transaction was completed on 11 August 2003.  The 40-day administrative deadline will be 6 October 2003.

On the basis of the information available to it, the Office of Fair Trading has decided that the completed acquisition of Wilts and Dorset Investments Ltd by The Go-Ahead Group 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.

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