KKR makes $44-a-share offer for Stop & Shop. (Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Co.)

Daily News Record, March, 1988

KKR Makes $44-a-Share Offer for Stop & Shop

NEW YORK (FNS)--Topping a hostile takeover offer by about $200 million, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. has come up with a $44-a-share cash tender offer for Stop & Shop Cos.

The KKR offer, announced Monday, will leave Stop & Shop management in place and provide an opportunity for senior management to buy equity in the takeover vehicle. KKR is a leveraged buyout specialist based in New York.

The Boston-based discount and supermarket chain has been under siege by the Dart Group, which on Feb. 1 launched a $31-a-share cash tender offer for all outstanding shares of Stop & Shop. The Dart Group, based in Landover, Md., later increased the offer to $37 a share, but that offer was rejected by Stop &...

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