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July 12, 2017 | 1 min to read
Two grocery companies and four private-equity firms expressed interest in possibly merging with Whole Foods Market Inc. or having some other business tie-up before the high-end grocery chain agreed to be bought by Amazon.com for $13.7 billion, a regulatory filing showed Friday.
None of the potential suitors was identified in the filing, which was the proxy statement for Whole Foods’ stockholders to vote on the deal.
One of the grocery companies, identified in the filing only as an “industry participant” called “Company X,” was privately held Albertsons, which also owns Vons and Pavilions, according to Reuters, citing one unidentified source.
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