Top State Official Signs Letter Urging Regulators to Deny Kroger-Albertsons Merger

New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver last week signed a letter with six other secretaries of state rejecting the $24.6 billion deal — a move that, if approved, will mean the combined companies will control nearly a quarter of the national food retail market.

These Senators are Pushing Back on the $25 Billion Kroger-Albertsons Merger

Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts on Wednesday called on the Federal Trade Commission to block the deal. “More mergers and less competition would mean even higher prices—and layoffs for employees,” Warren said on Twitter.

United Fresh, PMA Name Senior Management Team for New Association

June 4, 2021 PMA / United Fresh

Future Co-CEOs Cathy Burns of PMA and Tom Stenzel of United Fresh have named seven current association staff leaders as the senior management team for the new combined association to be launched January 1, 2022.

Perishable Pundit Podcast New Episode: PMA/United Merger — What is Gained? What is Lost?

How best to move ahead? It is the question for each of us as individuals, as executives for our companies and, as leaders, for the industry as a whole. What technology, what institutions, what ways of thinking can help us best address the future.

Stop & Shop and King Kullen Terminate Merger Agreement

June 12, 2020 Stop & Shop

A joint decision was made not to proceed with the acquisition because of significant, unforeseen changes in the marketplace that have emerged since the agreement was signed in December 2018, largely driven by the COVID-19 pandemic.