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- Premium organic grocer Whole Foods Market Inc has settled an antitrust battle with U.S. regulators by agreeing to sell the Wild Oats brand, 13 functioning stores, and the leases and assets for 19 closed stores.
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Proposed sale to Whole Foods Market. On February 21, 2007, Whole Foods Market announced that it had agreed to acquire Wild Oats for an estimated $565 million (~$800 million in 2023). [13] On 27 June 2007, the Federal Trade Commission issued an administrative complaint challenging the acquisition.
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Mar 6, 2009 · WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Premium organic grocer Whole Foods Market Inc has settled an antitrust battle with U.S. regulators by agreeing to sell the Wild Oats brand, 13 functioning stores,...
Sep 3, 2007 · 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 by the...
NFM Staff. July 29, 2008. 2 Min Read. by Hilary Oliver. Almost a year to the day after Austin, Texas-based Whole Foods Market announced it had closed on its acquisition of Boulder, Colo.-based Wild Oats Markets, a federal appeals court overturned a lower court's ruling allowing the deal.
Jan 23, 2008 · Wild Oats Marketplace in Bend is beginning its transformation into natural-foods giant Whole Foods Market after Whole Foods bought the company last year — a merger that one analyst says...
Aug 6, 2008 · The FTC alleged that Whole Foods and Wild Oats were the first and second largest chains in a market consisting of "premium, natural and organic supermarkets" (PNOS), and that the transaction would create a monopoly in such a market in 18 cities.
Any price wars between Whole Foods Market and Wild Oats would be a much more terrible thing for Wild Oats than Whole Foods due to their much smaller size, comparatively lack of financial resources, lower cash flow to sustain losses, and their overall history of losing money ($97 million of losses over their 20 year history).
