Yucaipa Companies - Investment History

Investment History

  • 1987: Food 4 Less grocery franchise of Kansas City acquired for $35 million
  • 1989: Boys Markets acquired for $375 million
  • 1991: Alpha Beta California supermarket chain acquired for $271 million
  • 1994: Smitty's Phoenix-based supermarket operator acquired for $138 million
  • 1994: Ralphs Grocery Co. Southern California supermarket chain acquired for $1.5 billion
    • 1997: Ralphs/Food 4 Less merged with Fred Meyer
      • 1998: Fred Meyer sold to Kroger for $8 billion
  • 1995: Dominick's Chicago grocery store chain acquired for $750 million
    • 1998: Dominick's sold for $1.85 billion to Safeway
  • 1999: invests $3 million in GameSpy, and $25 million in Cyrk, Inc.
  • 2004: TDS Logistics purchased by Yucaipa (according to TDS Logistics site )
  • 2004: Yucaipa acquires Piccadilly Restaurants
  • 2005: Yucaipa becomes the majority shareholder in Aloha Airlines in a $100 million bid to purchase the airline.
  • 2009: Yucaipa doubles its stake in Barnes and Noble to 16.8% during e-reader War with Amazon.
  • 2011: Stake acquired in The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company
  • 2012: Stake in Barneys New York

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