Sears, KMart to Merge in $11B Deal
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Sears, Roebuck & Co. and Kmart Holding Corp. on Wednesday said they would merge in an $11 billion deal to form the third-largest U.S. retailer.
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Two battered icons of the American shopping landscape, Kmart and Sears, yesterday announced an $11 billion merger that will create the nation&#39;s third largest retailer, with 3,500 stores.
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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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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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Retailer Kmart Holdings Corp. KMRT.O  on Monday finalized the deal to sell 18 of its stores to Home  Depot Inc. HD.N, for $271 million.
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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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By Anne D&#39;Innocenzio, Associated Press, 11/18/2004 09:11. NEW YORK  The $11 billion deal between Kmart and Sears is seen as a high-risk gamble to some analysts, who say the struggling discounter and struggling
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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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Kmart Holding Corporation and Sears, Roebuck and Co. said today that they are merging to form a new retail company called Sears Holdings Corporation that will be the nation&#39;s third largest
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Alan J. Lacy will not be the top man at Sears, Roebuck &amp; Company any longer if the announced merger with Kmart is completed. But he will receive a raise and could take out more than $20 million by cashing out his existing options on Sears stock.
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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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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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Discount retailer Kmart Holding Corp.  will buy department store operator Sears, Roebuck & Co. in a  $11.5 billion deal unveiled on Wednesday, creating the  third-largest U.S. retailer.
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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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STOCKS surged today as investors shrugged off a fresh indicator of rising inflation and welcomed an $US11 billion deal that combines retailers Kmart Holding Corp and Sears, Roebuck and Co.
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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 that  will create the third-largest U.S. retailer.
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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.