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Amazon is buying Whole Foods for $13.7 billion
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Amazon is buying Whole Foods.
The online giant is buying the high-end grocer for $42 a share, valuing the company at $13.7 billion.
Shares of the grocer were trading at $33.06 a share before the deal was announced, so the deal represents a 27% premium on its closing price yesterday.
“Millions of people love Whole Foods Market because they offer the best natural and organic foods, and they make it fun to eat healthy,” Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in a press release. “Whole Foods Market has been satisfying, delighting and nourishing customers for nearly four decades – they’re doing an amazing job and we want that to continue.”
The move comes after activist investor Jana Partners took a 8% stake in Whole Foods in April and pushed the company to look into strategic changes including a sale.
In October, reports surfaced that Amazon was planning to build its own grocery stores and has built other physical retail locations for books.
“This partnership presents an opportunity to maximize value for Whole Foods Market’s shareholders, while at the same time extending our mission and bringing the highest quality, experience, convenience and innovation to our customers,” Whole Foods CEO John Mackey said in the release.
According to the release, Whole Foods will continue to operate under its own name and Mackey will stay on as CEO of the brand.
Interestingly, Mackey called activist Jana Partners “greedy bastards” in an interview released on Wednesday.
“These guys just want to sell us, because they think they can make forty or fifty percent in a short period of time,” Mackey told Texas Monthly’s Tom Foster. “They’re greedy bastards, and they’re putting a bunch of propaganda out there, trying to destroy my reputation and the reputation of Whole Foods, because it’s in their self-interest to do so.”
The deal will be financed partly through debt with Goldman Sachs and Bank of America Merrill Lynch funding the transaction.
Whole Food would also recieve a $400 million termination fee if the deal is dropped.
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