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- Apr. 30, 1990: Business Notes:Retailing
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Apr. 30, 1990 Vietnam 15 Years Later
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 77
- Business Notes
- RETAILING
- Wrap It Up, We'll Take It
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- <body>
- <p> In a U.S. retail industry beset by sluggish sales, Dayton
- Hudson has been a star performer. Profits of the
- Minneapolis-based company, whose 666 stores include Dayton's,
- Hudson's, Mervyn's and the Target discount chain, rose 43% last
- year, to a record $410 million. In its boldest expansion yet,
- the company said last week it would acquire Chicago-based
- Marshall Field's, a premier retailer, for $1.04 billion from
- London's B.A.T. Industries. B.A.T., which is battling a takeover
- attempt by Sir James Goldsmith, will use proceeds from the
- sale to buy back part of its stock.
- </p>
- <p> Dayton Hudson's acquisition of the 138-year-old Marshall
- Field's, which earned $90 million before taxes in 1989, would
- create a new regional stronghold. Already the leading
- department-store operator in Minneapolis and Detroit, Dayton
- Hudson would become the largest in the Windy City as well by
- taking over Marshall Field's 24 stores, including 13 in the
- Chicago area.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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