Entries tagged "Ron Burkle"

Burkle buys shares of B&N for the holidays

A potential battle is brewing between bookseller Barnes & Noble and Yucaipa founder Ron Burkle.

Mackey still says the darnedest things

Whole Foods CEO John Mackey continues to misspeak, which could cause trouble now that an activist investor is bearing down on the company.

Whole Foods delivers small profit

Whole Foods upped by a penny analysts' expectations, reporting earnings of 19 cents per share on revenue of $1.9 billion.

Source Interlink rides bankruptcy bandwagon

Source Interlink filed for a lender-approved prepackaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The Deal Pipeline database indicates it's the ninth bankruptcy in the media/newspaper sector so far this year.

Whole Foods' indigestion over?

The FTC and Whole Foods take a break from their ongoing legal wrangling as investor Ron Burkle threatens an activist campaign against the ailing grocer.

SEC filing: Burkle has an appetite for Whole Foods

Yucaipa Cos. founder Ron Burkle, best known for his investments in supermarkets, has taken a bite out of troubled organic grocer Whole Foods Market Inc., which is facing a Federal Trade Commission challenge to its 2007 purchase of rival Wild Oats Markets Inc. Is the investment purely opportunistic, or is Yucaipa sampling the wares before a purchase? ...

Ron Burkle's labor problems

In news that may disconcert anti-Wall Street labor activists, Ron Burkle, self-proclaimed friend of labor, may be caught up in a labor scandal in Brazil via his investment in ethanol producer Brazil Renewable Energy Co, or Brenco....

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