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Whole Foods founder John Mackey once said, 'It's competition that forces companies to get out of their complacency.' For Whole Foods' new owner, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, and Alibaba's Jack Ma, [...]

AUSTIN, Texas - Whole Foods Market has agreed to put up for sale 32 stores - most of which are closed - along with the Wild Oats trademarks to settle [...]

WASHINGTON - Whole Foods Market last week offered to settle the government's antitrust investigation of its 2007 acquisition of Wild Oats Markets. The terms of the company's proposal to the [...]

WASHINGTON - Whole Foods Market last week pleaded with competitors for their help in defending its marriage to Wild Oats Markets from federal antitrust regulators determined to break it up. [...]

THE NATION'S LEADING retailer of natural and organic foods got squeezed like an overripe banana in 2008. Whole Foods Market, which for years outpaced the supermarket industry in terms of [...]

AUSTIN, Texas - Whole Foods Market said last week it sold a 17% equity interest in the company to an investment group 'to have adequate liquidity for whatever comes down [...]

WASHINGTON - Whole Foods Market is seeking to garner support for its opposition to a proposed Federal Trade Commission regulation that would set a five-month time frame for the evidentiary [...]

WASHINGTON - A three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court of Appeals here last week found that a lower court erred in allowing Whole Foods to acquire Wild Oats last [...]

RISHTON: AHOLD 'VIGILANT' ON PRICES IN FISCAL '08 AMSTERDAM - Ahold will remain 'vigilant about the changing economic environment and rising food prices' in fiscal 2008, John Rishton, chief executive [...]

WASHINGTON - The Federal Trade Commission has taken the unusual step of seeking to unravel last year's merger of Whole Foods and Wild Oats, but sources said the effort could [...]

The fallout from Amazon.com Inc.'s agreement to acquire Whole Foods Market Inc. is just beginning. But the implications are already clear: This transaction, if completed, will shake up the mass [...]

The food retail industry has been flush with big mergers lately, but the recent stunner has no precedent. The announcement that Amazon plans to buy Whole Foods Market for $13.7 [...]

ARE WHOLE FOODS and Wild Oats in a class by themselves? That's what the Federal Trade Commission argued this year - unsuccessfully, it would eventually turn out - as the [...]

MUCH OF THE MERGER and acquisition activity in 2007 was the byproduct of other deals, including Whole Foods' acquisition of Wild Oats and the purchase of Pathmark by A&P. A&P, [...]

AUSTIN, Texas - Whole Foods Market here said the Wild Oats stores it acquired in late summer are already showing improved sales results and should continue to show growth going [...]

MONTVALE, N.J. - A&P will surrender just six stores to satisfy federal antitrust regulators overseeing its takeover of Pathmark Stores - a remedy more closely resembling a drop of blood [...]

Washington - The Federal Trade Commission, twice defeated already in its effort to block Whole Foods Market's acquisition of Wild Oats Markets, is seeking to undo the merger. In court [...]

WASHINGTON -- Not content to let bygones be bygones, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission here asked a Washington appellate court to review the federal district court ruling that allowed Whole [...]

Dayville, Conn. - United Natural Foods here will broaden its customer base and diversify its product offerings through the acquisition of Millbrook Distribution Services, a specialty-product wholesaler based in Leicester, [...]

* The merger increases Whole Foods' store count to around 300 units. All of Whole Foods' 11 operating regions gain stores in the transaction, with three of its smallest regions--the [...]

A betting man would likely win millions by predicting that supermarkets will be placing even more emphasis on organics in 2008. The only tip-off he'd need is the news that [...]

AUSTIN, Texas - The bizarre seven-month saga of Whole Foods' effort to acquire Wild Oats took a giant step toward closure last week after a federal court thwarted last-ditch efforts [...]

AUSTIN, Texas - It did not come easily, but the merger of Whole Foods Market here with its main rival Wild Oats was essentially consummated yesterday, as the former said [...]

WASHINGTON - The Federal Trade Commission failed to prove that a separate market exists for 'premium natural and organic supermarkets' in its antitrust case against the acquisition of Wild Oats [...]

BOULDER, Colo. - Wild Oats Markets here said costs related to its pending sale to Whole Foods Market resulted in a large earnings decline for the second quarter and first [...]

OMAHA, Neb. -- ConAgra Foods, Inc. here acquired New York-based Alexia Foods Inc., a privately held natural food company that specializes in natural frozen potatoes and which markets all natural [...]

NEW YORK -- The Federal Trade Commission's case against the proposed merger of Austin, Texas-based Whole Foods Market, Inc. and rival Wild Oats Markets, Inc. has become stronger, a Bear [...]

BOULDER, Colo. - If Whole Foods doesn't buy Wild Oats, it might be an attractive target for someone else, analysts told SN last week. Wild Oats Markets, based here, has [...]

Last week in this space, we endeavored to determine why the Federal Trade Commission is seeking to block the relatively innocuous proposed merger of Whole Foods Market and Wild Oats [...]

AUSTIN, Texas - Whole Foods Market launched a verbal volley in its battle with the Federal Trade Commission over the chain's proposed acquisition of Wild Oats Markets last week with [...]

AUSTIN, Texas -- Whole Foods Market Inc. here said it plans to sell all 35 of Wild Oats' Henry's and Sun Harvest stores, along with a Riverside, Calif. distribution center, [...]

AUSTIN, Texas -- Whole Foods Market, Inc. said yesterday it had extended the expiration date for its tender offer to purchase outstanding shares of Wild Oats Markets, Inc. to 5 [...]

As is well known by now, the Federal Trade Commission is endeavoring to block the proposed acquisition of Wild Oats Markets by Whole Foods Market. Let's take a closer look [...]

AUSTIN, Texas and BOULDER, Colo. - Natural and organic retailers Whole Foods Market, Inc. and Wild Oats Markets said yesterday they would put up a fight against a move by [...]

BOULDER, Colo. - Wild Oats Markets here said transaction expenses related to its pending merger with Whole Foods Market resulted in decline in net income for the first quarter, which [...]

AUSTIN, Texas - Whole Foods Market here said last week that members of the Federal Trade Commission staff 'have voiced concerns regarding perceived anti-competitive effects' from Whole Foods' proposed acquisition [...]

AUSTIN, Texas -- Whole Foods Market, Inc. said yesterday that it had extended the expiration date for its tender offer to purchase outstanding shares of Wild Oats Markets, Inc. to [...]

A&P RAISES $203 MILLION IN METRO STOCK SALE MONTVALE, N.J. - A&P here said last week that it raised about $203.5 million from the sale of stock in Canadian retailer [...]

AUSTIN, Texas - Whole Foods Market could turn some of the smaller Wild Oats stores it is planning to acquire into grab-and-go food-service locations with limited grocery offerings, according to [...]

Whole Foods' co-founder, Chairman and CEO John Mackey is a brilliant retailer with a keen eye for consumer preferences. He's also a superb deal-maker, a fact underscored by last month's [...]

The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co., the owner of A&P and Food Emporium supermarket chains, said that it was in talks to acquire Pathmark Stores for $652.5 million, according [...]

AUSTIN, Texas - Whole Foods Market here has a reputation for buying only the best - which is why many observers were surprised last week when the fast-growing natural/organics retailer [...]

John P. Mackey, chairman and CEO of Austin, Texas-based Whole Foods Markets Inc., surprised investors yesterday by announcing a proposed merger with Wild Oats Markets Inc., a similar though much [...]

AUSTIN, Texas - In a surprise move, Whole Foods Market here is fighting back against the mainstream grocery chains, supercenters, and specialty operators that have moved in on its natural [...]

AUSTIN, Texas -Whole Foods Market here announced last week that it has purchased enough renewable energy credits from wind farms to offset 100% of the electricity used in all of [...]

AUSTIN, Texas -- Whole Foods Market here said it plans to use a small natural-foods chain it is acquiring in London as a platform to expand in the United Kingdom [...]

AUSTIN, Texas -- Whole Foods Market is casting a larger net for its seafood supply, acquiring a distributor/processor in Seattle and creating a new distribution center in Atlanta for Caribbean [...]

AUSTIN, Texas -- Whole Foods Market Inc. was able to complete its takeover of rival Wild Oats Markets Inc. late last month after a federal appeals court rejected the Federal [...]

AUSTIN, Texas -- Whole Foods Market Inc. has announced plans to challenge federal regulators' opposition to its $565 million acquisition of Wild Oats Market Inc. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) [...]