VORNADO MAKES BUNDLE ON SEARS
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The real-estate investment trust recently bought an options position that equaled 4.3 percent of Sears, Roebuck shares - and announced that it had done so even though it wasn&#39;t required by law.
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The discount retailer Kmart Holding Corp. is combining with one of the most venerable names in U.S. retailing, Sears, Roebuck &amp; Co., in an &#36;11 billion deal that will create the nation's third largest retailer.
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A Kmart employee pushes shopping carts into the store in the Northridge section of Los Angeles Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2004. Kmart is acquiring Sears, one of the most venerable names in US retailing, in a surprise
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The US retail companies Sears Roebuck and Company and K-Mart have agreed to merge in a deal they say is worth $11 billion. The merger announced early Wednesday will create a new company called Sears Holding Corporation.
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The US discount retailer Kmart Holding Corp. announced on Wednesday it is combining with Sears, Roebuck &amp; Co. in an 11-billion-dollar deal that will create the third largest retailer in the United States.
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A resurgent Kmart, home of the blue light special, is buying the once-dominant Sears department store chain in a surprising $11 billion gamble it is counting on to help both better compete with Wal-Mart and other big-box retailers.
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Kmart Holding Corp. has finalized the sale of 50 of its stores to Sears, Roebuck and Co. for $575 million, the retailer said Wednesday.
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Kmart Holding Corp and Sears, Roebuck and Co said Wednesday that they are merging to form a new retail company called Sears Holdings Corp that will be the US&#39; third-largest retailer with about US$55 billion in annual revenues.
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NEW YORK -- Sears and K-mart say they will save $500 million a year if their merger goes through. Some of that will be in job cuts, though the companies aren&#39;t saying how many.
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Department store selling projection TVs via Web; will offer them in stores in the fall, with other devices to follow.
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Kmart is acquiring Sears, Roebuck &amp; Company for $11 billion with the combined estimated earnings of the two making it the third-largest retailer in the United States.
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HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. Sears, Roebuck and Company&#39;s stock is surging today on news that a real estate investment trust purchased a four-point-three percent interest in Sears.
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NEW YORK (Dow Jones)-- Sears Roebuck &amp; Co. (S) today unveiled its softer side on the Web for the first time as part of an effort to steer its faltering apparel business in the right direction.
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Discount retailer Kmart Holding Corp.  KMRT.O will buy department store operator Sears, Roebuck &  Co. S.N in a $11.5 billion deal unveiled on Wednesday,  creating the third-largest U.S. retailer.
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It&#39;s all about Eddie. Wall Street is betting Kmart chairman Eddie Lampert will be able to add a successful combination with Sears, the biggest retail merger in history, to his impressive resume.
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Sears, Roebuck and Co.'s stock shot up Friday on news that a New York-based real estate investment trust had purchased a 4.3 percent interest in the huge department store chain.
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The Sears Holdings Corporation extended until Oct. 31 its $802 million offer to buy the 46 percent of Sears Canada it does not already own. The proposal may be further extended as the company seeks to appeal a regulatory ruling blocking its effort to buy the stake. The bid would pay Sears Canada stockholders 18 Canadian dollars a share and values the company at about 1.94 billion Canadian dollars ($1.74 billion). Sears also said it would ask the Ontario Court of Appeal to reconsider a decision by the Ontario Securities Commission that barred Sears Holdings from counting some shareholder votes toward the proposed purchase and effectively prevented the company from completing the acquisition.