Case details

CCENT/2010/17 - Alliance Healthcare/Medimadeira*Funchalfar

Alliance Healthcare, S.A.

a Portuguese-registered company, jointly controlled by Farminveste - Investimentos, Participações e Gestão SA, the Alliance UniChem Group and José de Mello Participações II SGPS SA. It is mainly engaged in the wholesale trade in pharmaceuticals and is present in continental Portugal and the Autonomous Region of the Azores - in the latter, through its subsidiary Proconfar - Produtos de Consumo Farmacêuticos SA. Through its subsidiaries, Almus Lda and Alloga Portugal Lda, Alliance Healthcare also places pharmaceuticals on the market and provides logistics services for pharmaceutical producers;

Funchalfar, Lda

a company under Portuguese law that is mainly engaged in the wholesale trade in pharmaceutical products and, to a minor extent, the wholesale trade in standard consumer food and non-food products in the Autonomous Region of Madeira.

Medimadeira - Produtos Farmacêuticos, S.A.

a company under Portuguese law that is mainly engaged in the wholesale trade in pharmaceuticals and, to a minor extent, the wholesale trade in standard consumer food and non-food products in the Autonomous Region of Madeira.

Art. 9(1)(a) and (b) (Law 18)

Turnover and market share

Horizontal

Closed

Phase 1

Publication of the announcement - Alliance Healthcare SA (Alliance Healthcare) notifies acquisition of exclusive control of Medimadeira - Produtos Farmacêuticos SA (Medimadeira) and Funchalfar Lda (Funchalfar), by means of the acquisition of all the shares representing their registered capital