Acquisition of printing houses by company Verlagsgruppe Passau, subject to conditions
The Office concluded that there will be a major
change in the structure of the newspaper printing market and a significant
strengthening of Verlagsgruppe Passau's position as a result of the merger. Therefore
the acquiring company 
had to submitt several pledges that competition will be
maintained as there was a real possibility that Verlagsgruppe Passau would
influence prices of services and products to the other clients disadvantage. Verlagsgruppe
has to modernise the printing houses and maintain the existing conditions for
its current clients, for instance, until the market stabilises.
Prague-based NTISK and NOVOTISK in Olomouc, northern Moravia, print the Hospodarske noviny business daily, daily tabloid Aha and the Halo noviny daily. They are in the hands of company Mediacore. Verlagsgruppe already owns Czech printers TYPOS and TYPOS Digital Print in Plzen, western Bohemia, Severotisk in Usti nad Labem, northern Bohemia, and VIVAS prepress and Svoboda Press in Prague.
Several weeks ago the Office approved another acquisition by Verlagsgruppe of the company Svoboda Press.
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