Comments on: So perhaps Whole Foods won’t be sowing any Wild Oats after all?

By: The Sirius-XM merger: a rant. -- Hoover’s Business Insight Zone

The Sirius-XM merger: a rant. -- Hoover’s Business Insight Zone — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:52:44 +0000

[...] I’m not opposed to restrictions on anti-competitive practices. But — as in the case of the FTC’s asinine attempt to block Whole Foods‘ acquisition of Wild Oats Market last year — the regulatory [...]

By: Tim Walker

Tim Walker — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:55:28 +0000

Frank — Haven’t heard anything one way or the other, but I think it’s unlikely that H-E-B will go public anytime soon, first because the Butt family has owned the company for more than 100 years without ever showing signs of going public, and second because the markets aren’t favorable to an IPO of that size right now.

By: Frank

Frank — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:01:46 +0000

Central Market concept is the standard which unites taste and organic/wholeness/natural. Does anyone know if H-E-B will become an IPO in the near future?

By: XM/Sirius deal: a curious treatment. -- Hoover’s Business Insight Zone

XM/Sirius deal: a curious treatment. -- Hoover’s Business Insight Zone — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:57:14 +0000

[...] own take is that this deal is somewhat like what I said about the Whole Foods acquisition of Wild Oats, which the FTC ridiculously opposed: two niche purveyors [...]

By: Hoover’s Business Insight Zone » Wrapping up loose ends: Whole Foods' acquisition of Wild Oats. - Hoover's

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:55:52 +0000

[...] I wrote about this in June: My opinion is that in this case Whole Foods is right, the feds are wrong, and itâ€™s not even [...]