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...In recent years, the New York-based investment group has turned some of its focus inwards to study how it can grow quickly after eclipsing a $50bn market capitalisation....
...For the past two quarters, advertising has been bigger in revenue terms than its physical store segment, which includes Whole Foods....
...Besides Google’s Looker deal and its $1.1bn purchase of parts of HTC’s smartphone business, they comprise Microsoft’s acquisitions of GitHub ($8.4bn) and LinkedIn ($27bn), and Amazon’s of Whole Foods Market...
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...Foods, and announcing plans to launch satellites....
...Albertsons, the US supermarket operator controlled by buyout group Cerberus Capital Management, is exploring a takeover of high-end grocer Whole Foods Market, said two people briefed about the matter....
...“The whole industry has struggled. But we have held up reasonably well” relative to competitors, Mr Smits said....
...The grocery market has been rocked by Amazon’s purchase of Whole Foods, with fears that the ecommerce titan could bring its low cost ethos to the supermarket industry and weigh on already slim margins....
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...Since the Whole Foods deal was announced, Kroger has shed 33 per cent of its market value, while Sprouts has lost 27 per cent....
...After Amazon bought Whole Foods in June, the price war grew more intense in groceries, pushing prices to historic lows that punished producers. Brand loyalty has suffered in the process....
...It is clear, though, that they are using acquisitions to head off competition and leverage their dominance in new markets, from Facebook’s acquisitions of Instagram to Amazon’s purchase of Whole Foods....
...Sales of organic food are expected to top $50bn in the US and Canada for the first time this year, accounting for 7-10 per cent of the market. But Whole Foods has not grown with the market....
...Proponents of the Great Man theory blot out founder-led laggards such as TripAdvisor and Whole Foods — both of which produced negative returns over five years — and the fact that only a handful of tech giants...
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...“China has the excess capital and know-how in infrastructure and they need what we have, which is raw materials and food.”...
...Fresh Market’s shares have lost two-thirds of their value since a peak in late 2012. The North Carolina-based company competes with Whole Foods in selling higher-end produce to consumers....
...They’re trying to go after those companies that are doing something they think is problematic and carelessly hitting a whole class of employers.”...
...The rush of US brands into the already crowded UK premium burger sector is adding heat to London’s retail property market....
...If successful, the bid will continue the consolidation that has changed the landscape for traditional supermarket operators amid greater competition from upscale chains such as Whole Foods Market, warehouse...
...The grocery retail sector is crowded by players from warehouse club operators like Costco and discount shops such as Dollar General to upscale chains such as Whole Foods Market....
...Brian Wieser, an analyst at Pivotal Research, said it would be a good addition for a whole host of companies....
...It held its own versus Walmart at one end, and Whole Foods at the other....
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