Retail

Bloomberg Southeastern Grocers Inc, the owner of the Winn-Dixie and Fresco supermarket chains that emerged from bankruptcy two years ago, has filed for an initial public offering. The Jacksonville, Florida-based grocer in its filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission listed an offer size of $100 million, a placeholder that will likely change. Existing investors will be selling some ...

Bloomberg Asia’s largest retailer Fast Retailing Co sees profits growing slightly beyond analysts’ expectations this fiscal year, driven by a robust recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic in the Uniqlo owner’s key China and Japan markets. Operating profit will probably be 245 billion yen ($2.3 billion) for the year through August 2021, the Japanese company said in a statement. That compares ...

Bloomberg A plan to sell bankrupt JC Penney Co’s retail operations to its two biggest landlords stalled, raising the prospect that creditors will carry the burden of millions of dollars in extra costs as the retailer prepares for the crucial holiday season. Talks between JC Penney’s lenders and the would-be buyers, mall owners Simon Property Group and Brookfield Property Partners, ...

Bloomberg Black Friday is known for massive crowds of shoppers elbowing one another aside to get a good deal. At Walmart Inc, that won’t be the case this year. The world’s biggest retailer will limit the number of customers inside its stores to just 20% of usual capacity as the threat of the coronavirus looms over this holiday shopping season. ...

Bloomberg Investors pushed the value of Instacart Inc to $17.7 billion in a new private funding round, more than doubling the valuation of the grocery-delivery startup since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Valiant Peregrine Fund and Daniel Sundheim’s D1 Capital Partners, two existing investors in Instacart, led the round, the grocery startup said. Instacart plans to use the $200 ...

Bloomberg Amazon.com’s two-day Prime Day sale kicked off on Tuesday, which is expected to give the world’s largest e-commerce company an early advantage over brick-and-mortar rivals still contending with pandemic-spooked consumers wary of battling Black Friday crowds. With Prime Day delayed to October from July this year, Amazon single-handedly could yank the pivotal holiday season forward — a long-predicted “Christmas ...

Bloomberg Poland’s newest stock listing was a roaring success on its first day of trading, taking over as the biggest stock on the country’s main exchange and adding almost two-thirds in market value. Allegro.eu SA shares jumped 63% to close at 70 zloty in its first trading session in Warsaw on October 12, lifting the company’s value to 72 billion ...

Bloomberg L’Oreal SA plans to close retail locations to restructure its US luxury operations as the company grapples with severe changes to consumer behaviour amid the pandemic. The Luxe Division of L’Oreal USA plans to shift investment to growth areas such as e-commerce as part of the reorganisation over the next six months, the company said in a statement in ...

Bloomberg Reliance Retail, owned by Indian tycoon Mukesh Ambani, has withdrawn from the race to buy Debenhams Plc, The Sunday Times reported, quoting a source close to the process. Reliance had denied previous reports that it was in talks about buying all or part of Debenhams. Multiple parties remained interested in the company, according to The Sunday Times. The UK ...

Bloomberg Tesco Plc’s new chief executive officer reported a strong rise in first-half sales as more people bought groceries while working from home during the pandemic. Tesco’s like-for-likes sales in the UK and Ireland, its core market, rose 7.2% as people ate more at home than in cafes and restaurants. Tesco also slightly upgraded its outlook on retail profitability for ...