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• Merger costs, weak sales hurt May's quarterly earnings

  - 2005-08-10

  ST. LOUIS -- May Department Stores Co.'s earnings fell by nearly half in the second quarter, hurt by expenses from a pending merger with rival Federated Department Stores Inc. and disappointing same- store sales, the company said Tuesday. Quarterly income dropped to $52 million, or 16 cents per...

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• MERGER MAKES A `FEDER-AL' CASE OF MAY'S HOME DEPARTMENT.

  - 2005-03-21

  Byline: Barbara Thau NEW YORK-The merger of Federated Department Stores and May Department Stores Co. will create a retailer with $4.4 billion in home furnishings sales. But what will it take to "Feder-alize" May's home business, its worst-performing division of late? ...

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• Will Field's name survive? Analysts see new name retail icon once merger is completed.(Business)

  - 2005-03-01

  Byline: Mike Comerford Daily Herald Business Writer Linked to Chicago's storied retail past, Marshall Field's may be a casualty of the planned merger of Federated Department Stores Inc. and May Department Stores Co. Legendary philanthropist and retailer Marshall Field was a major...

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• May, Federated weighing merger

  - 2005-02-26

  ST. LOUIS -- Federated Department Stores Inc.'s possible $10 billion buyout of rival May Department Stores Co. has reached a critical point, with boards of both retailers to meet separately into the weekend to perhaps finalize the deal, the Wall Street Journal reported in Friday's editions. Citing unidentified...

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• MERGER TALK RESUMES AS KAHN EXITS; MAY CO. CHIEF'S DEPARTURE SPURS DISCUSSION OF NEW LEADERSHIP AND POSSIBLE FEDERATED TAKEOVER.(May Department Stores Co)(Kahn, Gene)

  - 2005-01-24

  Byline: Jean Palmieri, David Moin, Arthur Zaczkiewicz NEW YORK -- Federated's not talking, but the Federal Trade Commission might be looking at a potential merger between the country's two largest department store operators. The news was all over the airwaves...

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• Retailer Dillard's Inc. Agrees to Sell 26 Stores to Address Antitrust Concerns.

  - 1998-08-04

  Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 4--Dillard's Inc. has agreed to sell 15 stores to Proffitt's Inc. and 11 stores to May Department Stores Co. to help satisfy the federal government's investigation into antitrust questions regarding Dillard's proposed merger with Mercantile Stores Co. Of the...

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• Merger of Dillard's, Mercantile Stores Stirs Speculation in South Carolina.

  - 1998-05-20

  Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 20--The sounds of planning are almost audible as retailers eye spaces likely to open at malls throughout South Carolina after the merger of Dillard's Inc. and Mercantile Stores Co. National retailers such as Proffitt's, Parisian, May Department Stores and Sears...

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• Hear more May Co. mergers in works. (May Department Stores Co.) (Brief Article)

  - 1992-09-30

  NEW YORK - May Department Stores Co. is considering discontinuing its J.W. Robinson division in Los Angeles and merging the May Co. Ohio division into Kaufmann's in Pittsburgh, according to market reports. A May Co. spokesperson responded: "We don't comment on speculation." ...

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• Ex-FTC official: US won't stop merger. (Federal Trade Commission, May Department Stores Co., Associated Dry Goods Corp.; Bazil J. Menzines)

  - 1986-06-24

  Ex-FTC Official: US Won't Stop Merger WASHINGTON FNS -- A former high-ranking government official predicted Monday that the Federal Trade Commission FTC will not have any antitrust concerns over the proposed merger of May Department Stores Co. and Associated Dry Goods Corp. ...

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