Caltex Australia Petroleum Pty Ltd - proposed acquisition of assets from Milemaker Petroleum

Completed

Not opposed

4 May 2017

61162

Fuel service stations

17 November 2016

42 days

Acquirer(s)

Caltex proposes to acquire certain assets relating to 46 retail service stations in Victoria from Milemaker Petroleum.

Please refer to the Public Competition Assessment.

Please refer to the Public Competition Assessment.

Document title	Date
Statement of Issues (PDF295.76 KB)	16 Mar 2017

Document title	Date
Public Competition Assessment (PDF390.38 KB)	25 Jul 2018

Date	Event
17 Nov 2016	ACCC commenced review under the Merger Process Guidelines.
15 Dec 2016	Closing date for submissions.
25 Jan 2017	Former provisional decision date of 16 February 2017 delayed due to delays in receiving information from the parties.
1 Mar 2017	Former proposed decision date of 2 March 2017 delayed to allow the parties to provide additional information.
2 Mar 2017	Former proposed decision date of 3 March 2017 delayed to allow the parties to provide additional information.
16 Mar 2017	ACCC published a Statement of Issues outlining preliminary competition concerns.
30 Mar 2017	Closing date for submissions relating to Statement of Issues.
18 Apr 2017	Former proposed decision date of 20 April 2017 delayed to allow the ACCC to consider additional information provided by the parties.
4 May 2017	ACCC announced it would not oppose the proposed acquisition.
	During the course of the review the ACCC also made a number of document and information requests to Caltex and Milemaker that are not separately identified in the entries above. Collectively, the parties took 70 business days to respond to these other requests.