# Granting of Request for Early Termination of the Waiting Period Under the Premerger Notification Rules
Section 7A of the Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C. 18a, as added by Title II of the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, requires persons contemplating certain mergers or acquisitions to give the Federal Trade Commission and the Assistant Attorney General advance notice and to wait designated periods before consummation of such plans. Section 7A(b)(2) of the Act permits the agencies, in individual cases, to terminate this waiting period prior to its expiration and requires that notice of this action be published in the *Federal Register* .
The following transactions were granted early termination of the waiting period provided by law and the premerger notification rules. The grants were made by the Federal Trade Commission and the Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice. Neither agency intends to take any action with respect to these proposed acquisitions during the applicable waiting period.
| Trans. No. | Acquiring | Acquired | Entities |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 20050609 | Brown & Brown, Inc. | Richard F. Hull | Hull and Company (California), Inc. |
| 20050621 | Perseus Market Opportunity Fund, L.P | Sports Capital Partners CEV, LLC | Maritime Telecommunications Network, Inc. |
| 20050628 | Guitar Center, Inc. | Kenneth Moore O'Brien | Music and Arts Center, Inc. |
| 20050633 | MLB Media Holdings, L.P | Tickets.com, Inc. | Tickets.com, Inc. |
| 20050634 | Junichi Hayashi | Kattegat Trust | CBS Personnel Holdings, Inc. |
| 20050638 | Craig J. Duchossois | AMX Corporation | AMX Corporation. |
| 20050647 | Northrop Grumman Corporation | Robert LaRose | Integic Corporation. |
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| 20050619 | Jupitermedia Corporation | MCG Capital Corporation | Creatas, L.L.C. |
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| 20050581 | Thermo Electron Corporation | SPX Corporation | Cryonix, Inc. |
| 20050617 | Exxel Capital Partners VI, L.P | Melvyn H. Miller | The Protective Group, Inc. |
| 20050624 | ESP Pharma Holding Company, Inc. | Johnson & Johnson | Centocor, Inc. |
| 20050625 | Protein Design Labs, Inc. | ESP Pharma Holding Company, Inc. | ESP Pharma Holding Company, Inc. |
| 20050637 | Fujikura Ltd. | Alcoa, Inc. | Newco 1 & 2. |
| 20050646 | The Coca-Cola Company | The Coco-Cola Company | CCDA Waters, LLC. |
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| 20050593 | Behrman Capital III L.P | Bea Maurer, Inc. | Bea Maurer, Inc. |
| 20050616 | American Tire Distributors Holdings, Inc. | Charlesbank Equity Fund IV, L.P | American Tire Distributors, Inc. |
| 20050631 | L-3 Communications Holdings, Inc. | Louis W. Blanco and Dorothy Blanco, husband & wife | Mobile-Vision, Inc. |
| 20050635 | Arlington Capital Partners, L.P | Thermal Solutions, LLC | American Avionic Technologies Corporation. |
| 20050640 | SZ Investments, L.L.C. | Danielson Holding Corporation | Danielson Holding Corporation. |
| 20050643 | Terrance D. and Judith A. Paul | AlphaSmart, Inc. | AlphaSmart, Inc. |
| 20050645 | Landry's Restaurant, Inc. | Timothy N. Poster | Poster Financial Group, Inc. |
| 20050652 | LIN TV Corp | Sumner N. Redstone | UPN Stations Group Inc. |
| 20050664 | The New York Times Company | PRIMEDIA Inc. | About, Inc. |
| 20050667 | Landry's Restaurant, Inc. | Thomas C. Breitling | Poster Financial Group, Inc. |
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| 20041398 | National-Oilwell, Inc. | Varco International, Inc. | Varco International, Inc. |
| 20050162 | Gannett Co., Inc. | Phillip H. Power and Kathleen K. Power | Camden Publications, Inc. |
| 20050675 | Fidelity Investors Limited Partnership VI | Banta Corporation | Banta Healthcare Group, Ltd. |
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| 20050666 | Southern Wine & Spirits of America, Inc. | Mark Lauber | 24 Columbia Associates, LLC. |
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| 20050656 | MapleWood Equity Partners, LP | Jose A. Garcia | Tropical International Corp. |
| 20050659 | William H. Gates III | Republic Services, Inc. | Republic Services, Inc. |
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| 20050603 | Citigroup, Inc. | Vollbrecht Family Investments, L.P. | Unit Parts Company. |
| 20050650 | Robert C. Fanch | Conversent Communications, Inc. | Conversent Communications, Inc. |
| 20050663 | Tomkins plc | Mellon Financial Corporation | Leland Holdings, LLC. |
| 20050665 | Third Avenue Value Fund | Danielson Holding Corporation | Danielson Holding Corporation. |
**for further information contact:**
Sandra M. Peay, Contact Representative or Renee Hallman, Case Management Assistant. Federal Trade Commission, Premerger Notification Office, Bureau of Competition, Room H-303, Washington, DC 20580; (202) 326-3100.
By direction of the Commission.
Donald S. Clark,
Secretary.