Continue to Site >>>

Mergers and acquisitions

Industry Partners

Nielsen Acquires Precima to Enhance Retail Analytics

 By WGB Staff on Jan. 13, 2020

The strategic acquisition of the Toronto-based retail analytics company will deepen the global market research firm’s portfolio of personalized pricing, promotion and assortment capabilities.

Retailers

Fairway Could Face Liquidation in Chapter 11: Report

 By Jon Springer on Jan. 06, 2020

The iconic New York grocer finds no takers in sale process.

Retailers

Will Earth Fare Get Lucky in Florida?

By Jennifer Strailey on Jan. 02, 2020

With 15 new stores planned for Florida, Earth Fare might be an unexpected beneficiary of Kroger quitting Lucky's Market.

Retailers

10 Stories That Mattered in the Grocery Business in 2019

By Jon Springer on Dec. 18, 2019

Food retailing got little more sophisticated—and a lot more personal.

Topics

LaBonne’s Market Buys Oliver’s Supermarket

By WGB Staff on Dec. 17, 2019

Three-store independent LaBonne’s purchased the Prospect, Conn., Oliver’s location from Bozzuto’s, which had acquired the store earlier this year.

Retailers

Military Vets Accuse Save A Lot Owner of Fraud, Racketeering

By Jon Springer on Dec. 17, 2019

A group of U.S. Navy and Marine veterans who invested in Save A Lot stores on a "mission" to combat food deserts say the chain's private owners deliberately misled and underserved them.

Stores

Best Buy Market Sells Locations to SaveCo

By Kat Martin on Dec. 17, 2019

Best Buy Market, with three locations in California, has been sold to SaveCo, which operates 16 State Foods Supermarkets in the Central Valley of California.

Retailers

West Coast Rollup Continues as New Seasons, New Leaf Merge With Bristol Farms Parent

By Jennifer Strailey on Dec. 10, 2019

New Seasons Market and New Leaf Community Markets have entered into a definitive agreement to merge with Good Food Holdings, a subsidiary of South Korea's Emart, which controls Bristol Farms, Metropolitan Market and Lazy Acres.

Retailers

UNFI Makes Deals for 13 Shoppers Stores; 4 More to Close

By Jon Springer on Dec. 06, 2019

Lidl, Compare Foods and McKay’s are identified as the buyers as the distributor's lengthy wind down of the Shoppers chain continues.

Retailers

Kroger Calls It Quits on Lucky’s

By Jon Springer on Dec. 05, 2019

The retailer said it would divest holdings in the upstart natural foods chain, which had doubled in size but reportedly struggled under its wing.

  • Page 10