{"id":6365,"date":"2011-12-23T00:40:48","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T22:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/12\/safricas-imperial-wins-eu-approval-for-german-logistics-buy\/"},"modified":"2011-12-23T00:40:48","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T22:40:48","slug":"safricas-imperial-wins-eu-approval-for-german-logistics-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/safricas-imperial-wins-eu-approval-for-german-logistics-buy\/","title":{"rendered":"SAfrica&#8217;s Imperial wins EU approval for German logistics buy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">BRUSSELS<\/span> Dec 22 (Reuters) &#8211; South African transport<br \/>\ngroup Imperial Holdings secured EU clearance on<br \/>\nThursday to buy German logistics company Lehnkering Holdings<br \/>\nfrom private equity firm Triton in a deal that will boost its<br \/>\npresence in Europe.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Imperial, which also operates auto retail and rental<br \/>\nbusinesses, unveiled the $368 million deal in September.<br \/>\nDuisburg-based Lehnkering&#8217;s fleet of vessels and trucks<br \/>\ntransport products ranging from steel to gas.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The European Commission, the EU competition watchdog, said<br \/>\nits investigation had confirmed the merged entity would continue<br \/>\nto face compatition from &#8220;a number of strong competitors&#8221; and<br \/>\nthat customers would still have enough alternative suppliers.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Barbara Lewis; editing by Philip Blenkinsop)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2011 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRUSSELS Dec 22 (Reuters) &#8211; South African transport group Imperial Holdings secured EU clearance on Thursday to buy German logistics company Lehnkering Holdings from private equity firm Triton in a deal that will boost its presence in Europe. Imperial, which also operates auto retail and rental businesses, unveiled the $368 million deal in September. Duisburg-based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-6365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}