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Albertsons is owned by private equity firm Cerberus Capital
Management LP.
Cerebus bought Safeway and merged it with Albertsons earlier
this year, creating the second-largest U.S. supermarket chain by
number of stores after Kroger Co <KR.N>.
Albertsons operates more than 2,000 supermarkets, at least half
of which are under the Safeway banner.
Its other supermarket brands include Vons, Jewel-Osco, Shaw's,
Tom Thumb and United Supermarkets.
The company's revenue rose about 36 percent to $27.2 billion for
the 53 weeks ended Feb 28, but it still posted a net loss of
$1.2 billion compared with a profit of $1.7 billion a year
earlier.
Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch,
Pierce, Fenner & Smith are underwriting the IPO, the company
said in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission.
The filing contained a nominal fund raising target of $100
million, and Albertsons said it planned to use the proceeds from
the offering to repay debt and for general corporate purposes.
The amount of money a company says it plans to raise in its
first IPO filings is used to calculate registration fees. The
final size of the IPO could be different.
The filing did not reveal how many shares the company planned to
sell or the exchange on which it would list.
(Reporting by Neha Dimri in Bengaluru; Editing by Savio D'Souza
and Simon Jennings)
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