Organization

Barberini

Italian maker of glass sunglass lenses, bought by Luxottica in 2018 on conditions set by Italy’s competition authority.

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Luxottica 2018 Primary record 1 2
The Italian authority authorised the purchase on 19 November 2018 on conditions: contracts like the one with Maui Jim open to Barberini’s customers, no minimum-purchase clauses, access to new technology, and a monitoring trustee.

Italian review of Luxottica’s purchase of Barberini (2018) company bought. In sunglasses it held well under 1%, so the authority called the overlap marginal; in glass lens blanks its German unit held over 50% of production, and Luxottica was the biggest buyer Primary record 2
In English: the authority said Barberini sold its own-brand sunglasses only since 2016 with a share far below 1%, and that Barberini GmbH held over half of glass-blank production.

Luxottica 2018 Primary record 1 2
Authorised by the Italian competition authority on 19 November 2018, on conditions. (The Italian quote says: to authorise the notified concentration on condition that the parties fully carry out the following measures.)

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Italy: Regulator opens Luxottica-Barberini buy probe, Competition Policy International, 7 Oct 2018. Scholarship & press
The Italian antitrust authority (AGCM) announced it opened a probe into Luxottica’s acquisition of top sunglasses maker Barberini.
Provvedimento C12183: Luxottica Group / Barberini, Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato, 19 Nov 2018. Primary record
di autorizzare l’operazione di concentrazione comunicata, a condizione che le Parti diano piena ed effettiva esecuzione alle seguenti misure
Barberini (attiva solo dal 2016, tramite la vendita di occhiali a marchio proprio) detiene una quota ampiamente inferiore all’1%.
in ragione della significativa posizione di mercato già detenuta da Barberini GmbH (oltre il 50% della produzione complessiva)

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