Ahold to sell off its Spanish holdings
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AMSTERDAM -- The Dutch supermarket retailer Ahold, seeking to streamline global operations and reduce debt, said yesterday that it will sell its holdings in Spain to Permira Funds, for roughly $849 million.
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Dutch retailer Ahold NV, recovering from a major accounting scandal largely attributed to its U.S. food distribution business, reported a lower-than-expected profit for the second quarter that reflected weak U.S. results. Its shares fell more than 8 percent in midday trading.
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Alcan Inc. has agreed to sell its ferroalloy division to a Spanish company for more than â¬100-million ($164.1-million). Montreal-based Alcan said yesterday it had agreed on terms
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Ahold NV, the global food retailer that owns the Stop &amp; Shop and Giant supermarket chains in the United States, said Thursday that its fourth-quarter sales declined 3 percent, blaming the weak dollar and the sale of some operations.
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Dutch retailer  Ahold sells its network of about 600 Spanish retail stores to private equity group Permira.
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SPAINâS Santander Central Hispano is to sell up to 79 million shares in Royal Bank of Scotland, and said it will end cross-directorships with RBS if its bid for Abbey National is successful.
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Company will exit the flat panel TV market.
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Ahold is to complete its exit from the Brazilian market early in 2005 after agreeing the sale of its G Barbosa supermarket business to an affiliate of US firm ACON Investments.
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Arts and crafts retailer Michaels   Stores Inc. MIK.N on Friday agreed to sell itself to two   private equity groups for more than $6 billion in a deal that   attracted many of the world's biggest buyout firms.
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WASHINGTON Ahold, the Dutch food retailer, and three of its former top executives have agreed to settle US securities fraud charges related to overbooking of profits, the company and US regulators said Wednesday.
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The company has decided to leave the public markets.
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Santander, Spain's biggest bank, said Friday it had agreed to sell its headquarters in Madrid to a consortium led by British real estate firm Propinvest for 1.9 billion euros (2.8 billion US dollars).
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Ahold, the world's third biggest retail group, announced a rise in net profits but also a sharp drop in second quarter operating income as improved results in Europe and food services were unable to offset tough market conditions in the United States.
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Royal Ahold NV, the food retailer that owns the US Giant chain, agreed to sell its Spanish business to Permira funds for 685 million euros ($851 million).
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Santander Central Hispano SA, which last month offered 8.2 billion pounds ($14.9 billion) to buy the UK mortgage lender Abbey National Plc, said it will eliminate 3,000 jobs at the British 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
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Dutch international supermarket operator Ahold has said it has swung back into profit in the third quarter 2006, posting net earnings of 210 million euros (278 million dollars) after a loss of 236 million euros in the same period last year.