Whole Foods sells
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Whole Foods Market plans to transfer all 35 of its Henry's and Sun Harvest store locations and a Riverside, Calif. distribution center to a Los Angeles-based food retailer, on the condition Whole Foods prevails in the current anti-competitive lawsuit with FTC over the firm's merger with Wild Oats and the completion of the merger, the firm announces June 20. The unnamed food retailer is a wholly owned subsidiary of Smart & Final Inc., Whole Foods says. FTC filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in June after Whole Foods announced plans for the Wild Oats acquisition (1"The Tan Sheet" June 11, 2007, In Brief)...
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