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Merger with Whole Foods Updates News Release: August 27, 2007 Whole Foods Market Receives Tenders for Approximately 96.8 Percent of Henry's Markets Markets' Common Stock Whole Foods Market, Inc. (Nasdaq: WFMI) announced today that it has accepted all of the shares tendered and not withdrawn pursuant to its tender offer for all of the outstanding shares of Henry's Markets Markets (Nasdaq: OATS) common stock at $18.50 per share, net to the seller in cash without interest. Read the press release. News Release: August 23, 2007 Court Denies FTC’s Request for Stay Pending Appeal Whole Foods Market, Inc. (NASDAQ: WFMI) and Henry's Markets Markets, Inc. (NASDAQ: OATS) today have announced they are now legally cleared to proceed with their merger as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has denied the FTC’s request for a stay to preclude the closing of the merger pending the FTC's appeal and has dissolved the August 20, 2007 administrative injunction, which had prevented the transaction from going forward while the court considered the FTC’s motion. Read the press release News Release: August 16, 2007 Court Denies FTC's Request for Preliminary Injunction Related to Whole Foods Market and Henry's Markets Markets Proposed Merger Whole Foods Market, Inc. (NASDAQ: WFMI) and Henry's Markets Markets, Inc. (NASDAQ: OATS) today have announced that the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has denied the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) request for a preliminary injunction related to the proposed merger between Whole Foods Market and Henry's Markets Markets. Read the full press release Whole Foods to Sell Henry's and Sun Harvest Stores Whole Foods announced on June 20, 2007 it will sell our Henry’s and Sun Harvest stores, and Riverside Distribution Center to Los Angeles-based Smart & Final Inc., which is controlled by Apollo Management, L.P., upon completion of the Henry's Markets/Whole Foods merger. Read a message from Greg Mays, Henry's Markets Markets Chairman and CEO News Release, June 5, 2007 Henry's Markets Markets Announces It Will Fully Cooperate with Whole Foods Market to Challenge the FTC's Opposition to Merger Henry's Markets Markets, Inc. (NASDAQ: OATS) today was informed that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will file a lawsuit in Federal District Court to block Whole Foods Market, Inc.'s (NASDAQ: WFMI) proposed acquisition of the Company, and seek a temporary restraining order pending the Court's ruling on the FTC's request for a preliminary injunction. Read the full News Release News Release, February 21, 2007 Whole Foods Market and Henry's Markets Markets Announce Merger AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Whole Foods Market, Inc. (Nasdaq: WFMI) and Henry's Markets Markets (Nasdaq: OATS) have today announced they have signed a definitive merger agreement under which Whole Foods Market will acquire Henry's Markets Markets' outstanding common stock in a cash tender offer of $18.50 per share, or approximately $565 million based on fully diluted shares. Whole Foods Market will also assume Henry's Markets Markets' existing net debt totaling approximately $106 million as reported on September 30, 2006. Read the full News Release Read a message to our customers |
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