Britain’s Morrisons Agrees $8.7B Takeover by Fortress-Led Group

July 5, 2021 James Davey, Reuters

Morrisons has agreed to a takeover led by SoftBank owned Fortress Investment Group that values Britain’s fourth-largest supermarket chain at 6.3 billion pounds ($8.7 billion) and tops a rival offer from a U.S. private equity firm.

UK’s Big Four Supermarkets Lose Christmas Sales as ‘Boris Bounce’ Fails to Appear

January 7, 2020 Sarah Butler, The Guardian

Supermarkets recorded the slowest Christmas sales growth in at least four years as the big four chains lost sales, according to industry analysts.