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<text id=90TT0264>
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Jan. 29, 1990: Business Notes:Bankruptcy
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Jan. 29, 1990 Who Is The NRA?
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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BUSINESS, Page 63
Business Notes
BANKRUPTCY
Save Us from Our Debts
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<p> The doors opened at Bloomingdale's and other U.S.
subsidiaries of Campeau Corp. last week, but it was hardly
business as usual. After months of financial turmoil, the
Toronto-based company placed its 257 American stores under
bankruptcy court protection. The 6,000-page petition listed $7.5
billion of debt. Campeau renamed the U.S. operations Federated
Stores Inc.; former Federal Reserve Board Chairman G. William
Miller was named chairman of the unit.
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<p> The moves were the latest in a takeover saga that began when
Canadian developer Robert Campeau acquired Allied Stores and
Federated Department Stores for $10.2 billion in the 1980s. The
bankruptcy filing will hold off major creditors while allowing
the stores to remain open and pay suppliers promptly. But before
it can emerge from bankruptcy, the American operation must work
out a creditor-repayment plan that is likely to require the sale
of at least some of the company's nine retailing chains.
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