Word: kroger
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Have a conversation with Sawyer, and you cannot help coming away impressed. Intelligent, articulate, polished -- and a bit calculated. (She calls a reporter at home to amend her earlier list of favorite reading: add Doctorow's Billy Bathgate and Mann's Tonio Kroger to a shelf that already features Flaubert, Henry James and John Fowles.) In earnest, carefully molded sentences, she strives to dispel the notion that she is strictly a TV creation. "I really love what you learn every day in the business," she says. "I love the breathtaking way we walk into people's lives and ask them...
Very few firms these days are big enough to be safe from takeovers. This year alone, such familiar institutions as Kroger, Polaroid and Bloomingdale's (Federated Department Stores) have come under attack. One reason for the buyout binge is the amount of money available for acquisitions. Private investors have guaranteed more than $30 billion in capital to large takeover funds, providing would-be raiders with the capital to mount their attacks. Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts, an investment firm with $5.6 billion for use in takeovers, is a leader in the field. Since the takeover funds can borrow against their capital, they...
...Hudson and Safeway -- shaken up by his Dart Group (1987 revenues: $406 million), based in Landover, Md., has earned Haft and his eldest son Robert, 35, Dart's president, a reputation as two of the most feared raiders on the roiling retail scene. Just ask the 2,257-store Kroger grocery chain...
Four days after the Hafts offered to buy the Cincinnati-based company (1987 revenues: $17.7 billion) two weeks ago, Kroger's board approved a sweeping $4.6 billion restructuring plan. Spurning the $4.4 billion Haft bid, as well as a follow-up $4.6 billion offer from Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, a New York City investment firm, Kroger's management proposed to sell off dozens of properties, slash costs and offer its stockholders cash and bonds worth up to $60 a share. Says Kroger CEO Lyle Everingham: "The company is not for sale...
...most food programs you wind up with canned goods," says Kroger Vice President Jack Partridge. After studying food banks, Kroger found that poor people's diets often lack fresh fruit, milk, bread and potatoes. The customer donations defray Kroger's cost of issuing food stamps for twelve such selected perishables to needy recipients. Since it was launched in March, the program has dispensed about $5,000 a week in food...