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• KKR reportedly considering bid to buy Macy's for $24 billion

  - 2007-07-19

  CINCINNATI -- Macy's Inc. may be finding its way out of its troubles by going private. Rumors have been rampant for the last couple of weeks that the company may be the target of a leveraged buyout, and the stock price rose Wednesday after a report said a...

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• Federated earnings jump 5%

  - 2007-02-28

  CINCINNATI -- Federated Department Stores Inc., parent of Macy's and Bloomingdale's, on Tuesday said stronger sales at established stores and lower costs drove fourth-quarter earnings 5 percent higher. The retailer also announced plans to change its name. Federated, which is building a national department store brand under Macy's,...

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• Federated to sell Lord & Taylor

  - 2006-01-13

  NEW YORK -- Lord & Taylor -- which once defined American classic designer styling but lost its cachet amid fierce competition -- is on the block. Federated Department Stores Inc., which purchased Lord & Taylor when it acquired May Department Stores Inc. last year, said Thursday it will...

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• Federated and May end merger talks

  - 2005-02-16

  ST. LOUIS -- Merger talks between May Department Stores Co. and rival Federated Department Stores Inc. reportedly have ended after the two retailers could not agree on how much Federated would pay for May. Negotiations broke down last week between Cincinnati-based Federated -- owner of Macy's and Bloomingdale's...

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• May Co.'s Cash Buys Marshall Field's Cachet.

  - 2004-06-13

  By Allyce Bess, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 13--May Department Stores Co.'s bold purchase of Marshall Field's is, by any measure, a milestone. Weighing in at $3.24 billion in cash, it's St. Louis-based May's largest acquisition...

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• May Co. Might Be Overpaying for Marshall Field's, Analysts Say.

  - 2004-06-11

  By Allyce Bess, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 11--Marshall Field's might be a hot acquisition, but some analysts say May Department Stores Co. is paying too much for the upscale Midwestern department-store chain. Carol Levenson of...

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• Investors bet on Dillard's sale: But analysts confident family will hold on following founder's death

  - 2002-02-18

  THE DEATH OF WILLIAM T. Dillard on Feb. 8 has given the investment community a whole new reason to look closely at Dillard's Inc. Stock speculators began buying shares on the expectation that the death of the company's founder might foreshadow the sale of the Little Rock department store...

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• Major retailers should benefit from tight inventories

  - 1997-07-15

  NEW YORK DJN -- While cool second quarter weather could drag down earnings for some retailers, major retailers are mostly expected to benefit from keeping a tight rein on inventories. Analysts said April's lower temperatures left many retailers with more inventory than expected going into the second quarter....

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• Macy's to remain basically as is: Federated. (R.H. Macy and Co., Federated Department Stores Inc.) (Brief Article)

  - 1994-10-05

  NEW YORK FNS -- Federated Department Stores, Inc., gave an upbeat presentation to Wall Street analysts on its merger plans here Tuesday, saying it plans to keep much of R.H. Macy's operations intact. According to analysts who attended the meeting, Federated said no decision...

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• Federated move on Macy's seen as fairly safe investment: analysts. (proposed merger between Federated Department Stores Inc. and R.H. Macy and Co. Inc.)

  - 1994-01-04

  Wall Street analysts view Federated Department Stores Inc's acquisition of a half of R.H. Macy and Company Inc's secured debt to Prudential Insurance Co as a relatively sound investment. The $449-million purchase price for 50% of Prudential's claim against Macy's took the form of a $109-million cash payment and a...

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