23/09/2012 (Agence Europe) - Mergers: Avnet/Magirus. Last week, the European Commission authorised the acquisition of German-based IT company Magirus by rival Avnet of the US. The Commission's investigation examined the effects of the planned deal (notified on 17 August) on the market for the wholesale distribution of IT products and the wholesale distribution of data storage products in Austria, the Netherlands, Slovakia and the UK, and of servers in Austria, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg,...