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  • Ahold plan to sell US Foodservice

    06/04/2003 1:31:21 AM PDT · by HAL9000 · 1 replies · 979+ views
    Financial Times ^ | June 3, 2003 | Ian Bickerton and Robert Clow
    Ahold wants to sell all or part of US Foodservice, the distribution unit where the discovery of an $880m accounting scandal plunged the Dutch grocery group into financial crisis, according to people familiar with the situation. The plan has been mapped out by Dudley Eustace, Ahold's interim chief financial officer, and other executives as part of a strategy to reduce 12bn Euros ($14bn) in debt and regain credibility with investors, these people said. Mr Eustace, who is understood to have received expressions of interest in a range of assets from private equity and venture capital groups, has "made it...