Merger Update

21 Dec 2005 11:17

Office of Fair Trading21 December 2005 Report under Section 107 (1) of the Enterprise Act 2002 (the Act) of the OFT'sdecision under Section 33 of the Act. The OFT has published the text of its decision on the anticipated acquisition byHMV Group plc, through Waterstone's Ltd, of Ottakar's plc, which was referred.This decision can be found on the Office of Fair Trading's website atwww.oft.gov.uk with links from the Office's Weekly Gazette and CompetitionBulletin. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange