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- BUSINESS, Page 60Business NotesCORPORATIONSThe Highflyers Hit a Low
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- The Christmas buying season brought little cheer to
- corporate raider and would-be retailing tycoon Robert Campeau.
- Citibank notified his Allied and Federated stores, owners of
- Bloomingdale's and Abraham & Straus, that the bank might
- formally place loans totaling $2.3 billion in default as early
- as Jan. 10. Many Campeau suppliers and investors concluded that
- the chains would soon be forced to seek Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
- "You would have to be out of your mind to ship to either of
- these companies under current conditions," said one supplier.
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- The bankruptcy blues had already struck another takeover
- team, go-getting Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. Hillsborough
- Holdings, a Tampa-based building-supplies company formed by KKR
- in 1988, filed for Chapter 11 protection last week. Although two
- smaller KKR companies, Seamen Furniture and SCI Television, are
- also in financial straits, Hillsborough's filing is the first
- for a large KKR unit. The holdings firm reported liabilities
- of $347.6 million against assets of $304.2 million.
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