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<text id=90TT1095>
<title>
Apr. 30, 1990: Business Notes:Retailing
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Apr. 30, 1990 Vietnam 15 Years Later
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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BUSINESS, Page 77
Business Notes
RETAILING
Wrap It Up, We'll Take It
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<p> In a U.S. retail industry beset by sluggish sales, Dayton
Hudson has been a star performer. Profits of the
Minneapolis-based company, whose 666 stores include Dayton's,
Hudson's, Mervyn's and the Target discount chain, rose 43% last
year, to a record $410 million. In its boldest expansion yet,
the company said last week it would acquire Chicago-based
Marshall Field's, a premier retailer, for $1.04 billion from
London's B.A.T. Industries. B.A.T., which is battling a takeover
attempt by Sir James Goldsmith, will use proceeds from the
sale to buy back part of its stock.
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<p> Dayton Hudson's acquisition of the 138-year-old Marshall
Field's, which earned $90 million before taxes in 1989, would
create a new regional stronghold. Already the leading
department-store operator in Minneapolis and Detroit, Dayton
Hudson would become the largest in the Windy City as well by
taking over Marshall Field's 24 stores, including 13 in the
Chicago area.
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