Bloomberg Food importers from Africa to Asia are scrambling for dollars to pay their bills as a surge in the US currency drives prices even higher for countries already facing a historic global food crisis. In Ghana, importers are warning about shortages in the run up to Christmas. Thousands of containers loaded with food recently piled up at ports in …

  Bloomberg Kroger Co agreed to buy Albertsons Cos in a deal with an enterprise value of $24.6 billion that would create a US grocery giant with almost 5,000 stores and annual revenue of about $200 billion. Investors will receive $34.10 for each share in Albertsons, which includes a special dividend, the companies said in a statement. That reflects a …

Bloomberg Pilots at Deutsche Lufthansa AG’s discount carrier will strike for 72 hours after Germany’s Vereinigung Cockpit union called Eurowings’ latest offer “completely insufficient.” The current dispute centers “exclusively” around a reduction of pilot workload and not pay for cockpit staff, according to a statement issued by the union. The employees “have no choice but to express their displeasure about …