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- BUSINESS, Page 63Business NotesBANKRUPTCYSave Us from Our Debts
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- The doors opened at Bloomingdale's and other U.S.
- subsidiaries of Campeau Corp. last week, but it was hardly
- business as usual. After months of financial turmoil, the
- Toronto-based company placed its 257 American stores under
- bankruptcy court protection. The 6,000-page petition listed $7.5
- billion of debt. Campeau renamed the U.S. operations Federated
- Stores Inc.; former Federal Reserve Board Chairman G. William
- Miller was named chairman of the unit.
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- The moves were the latest in a takeover saga that began when
- Canadian developer Robert Campeau acquired Allied Stores and
- Federated Department Stores for $10.2 billion in the 1980s. The
- bankruptcy filing will hold off major creditors while allowing
- the stores to remain open and pay suppliers promptly. But before
- it can emerge from bankruptcy, the American operation must work
- out a creditor-repayment plan that is likely to require the sale
- of at least some of the company's nine retailing chains.
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