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Merger control
Case reference
Ccent/2025/90 - TMICC / IC MSO
Acquiring
The Magnum Ice Cream Company Holdco 1 Netherlands B.V.
Description
It is part of the Unilever Group's Global Ice Cream Business and operates as an autonomous unit. The Global Ice Cream Business is currently controlled by Unilever and is in the process of being fully separated from Unilever's other business groups (global split). As part of the global split, the Global Ice Cream Business will be part of a new listed entity to be incorporated in the Netherlands (Magnum Listco), which will be the parent company of TMICC, with its shares expected to be listed in Amsterdam, London and New York by mid-December 2025. TMICC has no operations in Portugal.
Acquired
UL Ice Cream Comercial Lda.
Description
The company to which the commercialization and sale of ice cream from Unilever Fima, Ltda. will be transferred, and indirectly, the ice cream production activity of Fima Olá – Produtos Alimentares, S.A. (collectively, the “Ice Cream Business”).
Sector
Activity (NACE)
Applicable legislation
Notification thresholds
Type of merger
Cooperation with sector regulators
Status
Ongoing
Type of Investigation
AdC’s decision
Case description

The concentration operation consists of the acquisition, by The Magnum Ice Cream Company Holdco 1 Holanda B.V. (“TMICC”), of control over UL Ice Cream Commercial Ltda., to which the marketing and sale of ice cream from Unilever Fima, Ltda., and, indirectly, the ice cream production activity of Fima Olá – Produtos Alimentícios, S.A. (collectively, the “Ice Cream Business”) will be transferred.

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