A slippery definition of “reopening,” an unlikely grant and a merger’s messy failure. From the wild and wooly world of real estate, here are our Hits and Misses for the week of Dec. 9-13. Miss: An Unsettled Settlement. The US Department of Justice (DOJ)...
The proposed merger between the supermarket giants Albertsons Companies Inc. (NYSE: ACI) and The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR) collapsed this morning as Albertsons terminated the merger agreement and filed a lawsuit against Kroger claiming a willful breach of contract and...
The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR) has filed a motion for preliminary injunction against the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) challenge to its merger with Albertson’s Companies Inc. (NYSE: ACI), arguing that the agency’s decision to proceed in an administrative...
The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR) and Albertsons Companies Inc. (NYSE: ACI) are pausing their proposed $24.6 billion merger as federal and state lawsuits seek to block their union. The Wall Street Journal reports the supermarket giants agreed to a temporary injunction in a...
The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR) and Albertsons Companies Inc. (NYSE: ACI) plan to divest an additional 166 supermarkets to gain regulatory approval of their proposed $24.6 billion merger. The Kroger-Albertsons transaction was announced last October, but in February a...
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