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Southeastern Grocers LLC (formerly Bi-Lo Holdings) is a supermarket portfolio headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, United States. The portfolio was created by Lone Star Funds in September 2013 as the new parent company for BI-LO, Harveys, and Winn-Dixie. ==History== On March 21, 2007, Lone Star Funds announced that they were spinning off the 67 Bruno's Supermarkets and Food World stores from BI-LO LLC into a separate company to be based out of Birmingham.〔(Execs leave Bi-Lo; Bruno's spun off ), Chattanooga Times Free Press March 21, 2007〕 On April 16, 2007, Lone Star announced that they were putting the 230-store BI-LO chain up for sale. Soon after, C&S announced that it was closing the Chattanooga distribution center that served the BI-LOs in the Chattanooga area and portions of North Georgia.〔(Local BI-LO Warehouses Closing ), The Chattanoogan April 16, 2007〕 On March 23, 2009, the company announced that it had filed chapter 11 bankruptcy and intended to use the court-supervised process to address "an upcoming debt maturity." The company said that expects its stores and regular operations to continue to operate as usual during the process. The company secured a $100 million loan from GE Capital in order to continue paying wages, salaries, benefits, suppliers, and vendors.〔http://www.greenvilleonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090324/BUSINESS/303240002&s=d&page=2〕 In October 2009, Delhaize Group, headquartered in Belgium and owner of competing chain Food Lion, announced that it entered a preliminary, non-binding agreement to purchase $425 million worth of assets from the chain.〔(Delhaize To Buy $425M Worth Of Assets From BI-LO )〕 Shortly after, in November 2009, the company filed plans with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court to restructure, with parent company Lone Star Funds providing a $350 million cash infusion, and Delhaize Group and Food Lion left out of the plans. Lone Star Funds said that it was possible that BI-LO could emerge from bankruptcy in the first quarter of 2010. On May 12, 2010, the company emerged from bankruptcy protection, under a plan approved by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of South Carolina. BI-LO, a Supermarket News Top 75 Retailer for 2010, remains under ownership of Lone Star Funds after restructuring. BI-LO was reportedly put up for sale in August 2010; Kroger and Publix were said to be interested in acquiring the chain,〔(Bi-Lo on the Block: Source ), Supermarket News August 10, 2010〕 but nothing ever developed from these rumors. In September 2013, Southeastern Grocers Inc. was created by Lone Star Funds as the new parent company for BI-LO, Harveys, and Winn-Dixie. The new parent company then filed to raise as much as $500 million in an U.S. initial public offering and list its common stock under the "SEG" symbol. On August 19, 2014 Southeastern Grocers withdrew their IPO filing with the SEC, aborting the process of listing the stock for public sale.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= Re: Southeastern Grocers, LLC — Withdrawal of Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-191389) )〕 In July 2015, Southeastern Grocers announced the sale of its 21 BI-LO locations in the Chattanooga, Tennessee market as well as eight BI-LO locations in Northern Georgia to K-VA-T Food Stores, which would rebrand the stores under its Food City banner. Southeastern Grocers would likely use proceeds from the deal to reduce debt. This effectively ends Southeastern Grocers' presence in the Tennessee market. In October 2015, Southeastern Grocers laid off 250 workers at its support offices in a move said to improve efficiency and invest in service and value for customers. The cuts took place at Southeastern’s Jacksonville, Florida headquarters and regional support centers. Store employees were not affected. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Southeastern Grocers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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