Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., the owner of A&P, Super Fresh and Food Emporium supermarkets, agreed to buy Pathmark Stores for $1.3 billion to create the largest grocery chain in the Northeast.
Pathmark investors are to receive about $13 a share -- $9 in cash and 0.13 share of Great Atlantic stock, the companies said yesterday in a statement. Great Atlantic, of Montvale, N.J., is paying 7.9 percent more than Pathmark's stock price Feb. 26, the day before the companies said they were discussing a merger. The price includes debt and liabilities
The new chain will have 550 stores, mostly in New York, New Jersey and Philadelphia, and annual sales of $11 billion. The companies said the merger would reduce costs and help fend off competition from Wal-Mart and Costco as they increase grocery sales in the region.To read the rest of the story click HERE
Lol...my cousin Cathy, alerted me to this a few weeks ago....she told me to AVOID the "America's Choice" brand of meats at ALL COSTS!!!
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