KKR considers Macy's bid: report
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Private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis & Roberts  is considering a bid for retailer Macy's Inc. , according to the online edition of Women's Wear Daily magazine.
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Jones Apparel Group Inc.  is close to a deal to sell Barneys New York luxury department store chain for $825 million to Dubai's private equity firm Istithmar, sources familiar with the situation said on Friday.
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Shares of Macy's Inc.  rose more than 12 percent on Wednesday after an unconfirmed report that private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. was considering a bid for the department store chain.
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Members of the Bancroft family, which controls Dow Jones & Co. Inc. , may decide by the end of the week whether to accept a $5 billion offer by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp  for the publisher of The Wall Street Journal.
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Jones Apparel Group Inc.  is  near a deal to sell the Barneys New York department store chain  for $825 million to Dubai&#39;s private equity firm Istithmar, The  New York Times reported on Friday.
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Shares of the specialty retailer, which recently posted  better-than-expected November sales, may be undervalued despite  their rise this year, financial weekly Barron's said, citing an  analyst.
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Jones Apparel Group Inc.  is near a deal to sell the Barneys New York department store chain for $825 million to Dubai's private equity firm Istithmar, The New York Times reported on Friday.
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Jones Apparel Group Inc.  is  near a deal to sell the Barneys New York high-end clothing  chain for $825 million to Dubai&#39;s private equity firm  Istithmar, The New York Times reported on Friday.
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The newspaper publisher Pulitzer is considering whether to sell, which could attract bids of up to $1.5 billion, bankers close to the negotiations said over the weekend.
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ServiceMaster Co. , the U.S. lawncare company that put itself up for sale last year, is drawing interest from at least two buyout groups that may bid more than $4 billion, four people with knowledge of the discussions said, according to a report on Bloomberg News.
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The companyâs initial public offering was priced at $31 a unit, but its archrival Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is said to also be planning an initial offering of its own.
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Private equity fund Sun Capital  Partners is considering a renewed bid to take over clothing  brand company Kellwood Co.  with a hostile conditional  tender offer, The New York Post reported on Thursday.
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KKR Financial Holdings , the  listed affiliate of private equity group Kohlberg Kravis  Roberts & Co , has delayed repayment of billions of  dollars of commercial paper for the second time and begun a new  round of talks with creditors, the Financial Times said on  Wednesday.
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Federated Department Stores Inc.  FD.N is in preliminary talks to buy rival May Department  Stores Co. MAY.N, the Wall Street Journal reported on  Thursday.
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Investor Kirk Kerkorian said he may  consider buying up to 12 million additional shares of General  Motors Corp.  common stock, according to a filing on  Thursday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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KKR & Co. LP , the prominent U.S. buyout firm that pioneered the leveraged buyout industry, filed with regulators on Tuesday to raise up to $1.25 billion in an initial public offering.
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Newspaper publisher Pulitzer Inc.  PTZ.N is considering a sale of the company that could attract  bids of up to $1.5 billion, sources familiar with the matter  said on Friday.