Brussels, 17/06/2004 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has authorised the US investment fund KRR, specialised in buying up companies, to acquire Vendex KBB, a Dutch non-food retail trade company. The latter operates 1800 sales points in seven EU Member States under different trade names including "Hema", "Bijenkorf", "Keur", "Praxis", "Brico", "M&S", "Hunkemöller", "Dixons", "Dynabyte" and "Prijstopper". A priori, the operation did not raise any competition problems in that none of...