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...But a dust-up over the use of a PO box near Houston will signal how much flexibility corporates have in choosing venues for proceedings, DD’s Sujeet Indap writes....
...The divestitures included more than 400 stores sold to rival chains such as Publix, according to a person familiar with Cerberus’s returns....
...Now it could hold one for Morrisons, the UK supermarket that two private equity consortiums are fighting for....
...Jim Chanos raises the red flag on Spacs Prodding through a certain Houston energy company’s trading positions back in 2000, Jim Chanos said the group was “a hedge fund in disguise”....
...“What you’re seeing is an expectation of a V-shaped recovery and that may prove to be too optimistic,” said one equity analyst....
...DD’s Indap v NYU’s Damodaran: Is stock compensation good or bad?...
...I tried taking a trip to the supermarket with only my watch, which served as shopping list, payment card and communicator....
...“It’s cheap to drive, why would you bother with home delivery when it’s so easy to just go to the supermarket?”...
...We aren’t going to let them use it.” ————————————————– News: Amazon agrees to buy Whole Foods for $13.7bn Lex: Grain of truth Video Lex on Whole Foods takeover FT Alphaville: Whole Foods v the activists...
...Kroger, one of the world’s biggest supermarket chains, had 9.2 per cent wiped from its share price to $22.29....
...He added that US supermarkets such as Kroger and Publix had done a good job in taking on Walmart, with good-quality products and keen prices....
...The Houston-based company reported a net loss of $179m, or 15 cents a share, below analysts estimates for earnings of 6 cents a share....
...Today, a revolution is under way in US supermarkets....
...Its audiences have been largest in cities with large Spanish-speaking populations, such as Miami, Los Angeles, Houston and New York....
...On spotting John McCaw in the lobby of the George V hotel in Paris, Donald Pels cracked a smile....
...This may complicate life for makers of driverless cars: because of legal uncertainties and hugely variable driving environments, “self-driving” is likely to be offered as an optional setting for decades...
...The war of the supermarket titans is back on....
...Other US supermarkets are doing well too, Mr Dillon adds, but most of them are privately owned – Publix, HEB, Hy-Vee and WinCo....
...He describes turning up to the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 wearing “a V-neck tennis sweater in the traditional white, maroon and black, over white pants”....
...Food minister K V Thomas said the government would allow 51 per cent foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail, paving the way for retail giants like Walmart and Tesco to enter the market....
...In a separate case, New York-listed Diana Shipping said in December it was owed $4.8m for charter of the M/V Houston, which it had chartered for five years to China’s Shagang Shipping....
...When co-launching V Water, a soft drink that was subsequently acquired by Pepsi, he took a prototype of the product and placed it on supermarket shelves without asking for permission from the retailer....
...“No,” says the guard, “this is the line for missing the flight to Houston. The line for missing your flight to Omaha is at Concourse C....
...Mr Vernon, who is the ‘v’ in Brevan, intends to “pursue other interests”. Of the five founding partners, Jean-Philippe Blochet left in November 2009 to join Moore Capital....
...Publix, a successful regional supermarket chain, has also relaunched an e-commerce business based on store pick-up, after abandoning an early move into online sales in 2003....
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