Lampert: Architect of Sears-Kmart Deal Compared To Buffett
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In the hubbub of Wednesday&#39;s Kmart (nasdaq: KMRT - news - people ) and Sears Roebuck (nyse: S - news - people ) merger stunner, one name has quietly moved to the fore: Edward Lampert, chairman at the Big Red K and a Sears shareholder.
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DreamWorks SKG co-founder David Geffen laughs when asked what it&#39;s like to invest with Edward Lampert, the hedge fund manager and Kmart chairman who startled the
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Sears, Roebuck and Co. and Kmart Holding Corporation announced an agreement to merge into a new retail giant named Sears Holdings Corporation by March 2005, in a deal worth some 11 billion dollars (8.4 billion euros).
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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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LET&#39;S assume that the merger of Kmart and Sears is exactly what it&#39;s being sold as: a way to combine the remaining strengths of two well-known but struggling retailers.
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Discount retailer Kmart Holding Corp. (KMRT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) will buy department store operator Sears, Roebuck &amp; Co.
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Retailer Kmart Holding (KMRT) has appointed Aylwin Lewis, formerly an executive at restaurant operator Yum Brands (YUM), as its chief executive and president.
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OK, maybe the merger of Kmart and Sears doesn&#39;t exactly put them in the realm of Wally World, but the $11 billion deal is nonetheless impressive.
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Credit investors found it difficult to muster much joy over Kmart Holding Corp.&#39;s (KMRT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) plan to buy Sears, Roebuck &amp; Co.
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Kmart, which emerged from bankruptcy just last year, announced yesterday it would buy Sears for $11 billion to create the country&#39;s third-largest retailer.
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Discount retailer Kmart Holding Corp. is combining with one of the most venerable names in US retailing, Sears, Roebuck &amp; Co., in a surprise $11 billion deal that will create the nation&#39;s third largest retailer.
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Kmart Holding Corp. KMRT.O, the  discount chain pulled from bankruptcy by hedge fund operator  Edward Lampert, will buy Sears, Roebuck & Co. S.N for $10.85  billion in a bold play to revive two of America's best-known,  but long-struggling, retail brands.
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About 10 days ago, Edward S. Lampert placed a call to his newest hire, Aylwin B. Lewis, whom he had installed as the chief executive of Kmart only a week earlier.
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Kmart Holding Corp. , the discount chain pulled from bankruptcy by hedge fund operator Edward Lampert, will buy Sears, Roebuck & Co.  for &#36;10.85 billion in a bold play to revive two of America's best-known, but long-struggling, retail brands.
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Two of the biggest names in the retail world are becoming one. In an announcement Wednesday, Kmart and Sears, Roebuck &amp; Co. have agreed to merge in a deal totalling $11 billion.
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NEW YORK, September 29  - Sears Roebuck &amp; Company (S.NYS) has finalized its previously announced acquisition of 50 stores from Kmart Holding Corporation (KMRT) for $575.
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In the early 1980s, Sears and Kmart were American retail giants, with gobs of money, huge portfolios of real estate and loyal customer bases that should have made them fast-growing fulfillers of Americans&#39; insatiable demand for more stuff.