Mergers and acquisitions

Could Sprouts Blast Off With Apollo Again?

Basket Economics: A comprehensive reset, an unpredictable environment and, for the time being, an attractive stock price raise speculation around a Sprouts acquisition.

Retailers

Gelson’s To Be Acquired by Don Quijote Owners

Gelson’s Markets of Encino, Calif., has entered into a definitive agreement with Pan Pacific International Holdings that will allow the global retailer to acquire Gelson’s from TPG Capital.

Retailers

Wegmans to Albany: Not Now

By Jon Springer on Feb. 12, 2021

A Rensselaer County executive says the Price Chopper-Tops merger provides an opening for a new grocer in New York's Capital Region, but Wegmans isn’t taking it at this time.

Retailers

Can Price Chopper and Tops Build an Empire?

By Jon Springer on Feb. 09, 2021

Basket Economics: Business realities smooth over differences as long-standing New York regional independents prepare to join forces.

Retailers

Price Chopper, Tops to Merge

By Jon Springer on Feb. 08, 2021

The deal unites regional neighbors long in search of additional scale; Price Chopper's Scott Grimmett to oversee combined headquarters in Schenectady, N.Y.

Stores

Food Lion Opens First 2 Bi-Lo Conversions

By Jon Springer on Jan. 28, 2021

A former Bi-Lo in Cayce, S.C., and a Harveys in Tifton, Ga., are the first of as many as 62 new Food Lion stores coming to the Carolinas and Georgia as a result of last year's acquisition.

Retailers