Build a Bear Workshop Inc / Bear Factory Ltd / Hamleys Group Ltd

OFT closed case: Anticipated acquisition by Build a Bear Workshop Inc of the Bear Factory Limited from Hamleys Group Limited

From:
Competition and Markets Authority
Published
22 March 2006
Case type:
Mergers
Case state:
Closed
Market sector:
Retail and wholesale
Outcome:
Mergers - phase 1 found not to qualify
Closed:
22 March 2006

Affected market:聽Manufacture of toy animals

狈辞.听惭贰/2285/05

On the basis of the information available to it, the Office of Fair Trading has decided that the anticipated acquisition by Build-a-Bear Workshop Inc of the Bear Factory Limited from Hamleys Group Limited 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.聽 A relevant merger situation has, therefore, not been created.

Updates to this page

Published 22 March 2006