Food retailer Ahold reports bigger loss in third quarter: US&#36;217.2 million
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AMSTERDAM  - Global food retailer Ahold NV, which owns the Stop &amp; Shop and Giant supermarket chains in the United States, reported a wider loss Wednesday for the third quarter, mainly because of one-time charges.
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Countrywide Financial Corp , the largest U.S. mortgage lender, posted a $1.2 billion third-quarter loss on Friday, hurt by write-downs as the U.S. housing market deteriorated.
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Zaandam - Dutch food retailing giant Ahold on Monday announced it would acquire a 20-percent stake in the ICA Swedish supermarket chain from Norwegian Canica group for â¬811 million (R6.
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The Dutch retail giant Ahold said Tuesday it had finalised the sale of its US division US Foodservice to private equity funds Clayton, Dubilier, Rice and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts for 7.1 billion dollars (5.2 billion euros).
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AMSTERDAM Shares in Ahold, the Dutch retailer, gained more than 3 percent on Monday after it agreed to sell its Spanish assets to Permira Advisers, a venture capital group based in London, for E685 million.
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Private equity and trade  buyers are lining up bids for Dutch retailer Ahold's   3 billion euro ($3.8 billion) U.S. Foodservice  division, British newspaper The Business reported on Sunday.
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American Airlines' parent AMR Corp.  AMR.N on Wednesday posted a third-quarter loss as record-high  oil prices battered its bottom line and threatened to make  fourth-quarter losses even larger.
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AMSTERDAM: Ahold has agreed to sell its Bruno&#39;s and BILO shop units in the United States to Lone Star Funds for US$660mil, the Dutch retailer said yesterday.
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CHICAGO The nation&#39;s largest food manufacturer, Northfield-based Kraft Foods Incorporated, posted a four percent decline in third-quarter profits today.
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Dutch retailer Ahold said on Thursday it had agreed to sell its Bruno's and BI-LO retail chains in the United States to Lone Star Funds for &#36;660 million, which is slightly below market expectations.
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Dutch retailer Ahold has sold its network of about 600 Spanish retail stores to private equity group Permira. The two parties valued the deal at 685m euros ($850m; Â£472m).
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Sears, Roebuck & Co S.N, the largest  U.S. department store chain, on Thursday posted an unexpected  third-quarter loss and cut its full-year profit forecast,  sending its shares tumbling more than 8 percent.
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ConAgra Foods Inc., the third-largest US food company, said earnings fell to $242.3 million, or 47 cents a share, in the second quarter ended Nov. 28.
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Ahold, the Dutch super-market group, took another step along its &quot;road to recovery&quot; on Thursday after the sale of two retail subsidiaries for $660m to a private US equity group.
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American Airlines&#39; parent AMR Corp. (AMR.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Wednesday posted a third-quarter loss as record-high oil prices battered its bottom line and threatened to make fourth-quarter losses even larger.
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Global grocery retailer Ahold NV has agreed to a settlement of civil fraud charges over an alleged &#36;1 billion overstatement of earnings in a deal with U.S. regulators that does not fine the company.
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Ahold NV (AHLN.AS: Quote, Profile, Research) , the Dutch grocery operator, and three former top executives have agreed to settle US securities fraud charges related to massive overbooking of profits, the company and US regulators