MEXICO CITY & COMMERCE, Calif.–Grupo Comercial Chedraui, S.A.B. de C.V. announced today that its subsidiary, Bodega Latina Corporation, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Smart & Final Holdings, Inc. BB #:154073 from funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, Inc. for approximately U.S.$620 million, including the assumption of certain indebtedness.
Smart & Final, the smaller, faster grocery warehouse store for household and business customers, provides one-stop shopping with an assortment of both club and traditionally sized groceries, fresh foods and supplies without a paid membership and at great values. Celebrating its 150
th anniversary in 2021 and headquartered in Commerce, Calif., Smart & Final operates more than 250 stores under two banners: Smart & Final and Smart & Final Extra!, in California, Arizona and Nevada. There are an additional 16 stores in Northwestern Mexico operated through a joint venture. Smart & Final stores service both hous
Apollo Sells Smart & Final to Bodega Latina for $620M May 14, 2021 at 11:41 AM EDT By Nicole Silberstein
$620 million.
150th anniversary this year. The small-format warehouse chain operates more than
250 stores under two banners:
Smart & Final and
Smart & Final Extra!, in California, Arizona and Nevada. An additional
16 stores in Northwestern Mexico are operated through a joint venture. Smart & Final stores service both household and business customers, which represent approximately
70% and
59
Fiesta Mart stores across California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and Texas.
“Smart & Final, with a unique go-to-market and operating strategy, is an attractive fit that is aligned with our business strategy in the U.S., utilizing differentiated formats to focus on growing but underserved markets,” said Carlos Smith, President and CEO of Bodega Latina in a statement. “With a brand that resonates with consumers, geographic fit in key markets, and a
CuliacanCuba-ortelius-1579 SOLD
Title
Culiacanae, America Regionis Descriptio./ Hispaniolae, Cubae, Aliarumque Insularum Circumiacentium, Delineatio./ Cum Imp. et Regio./ privilegio decennali 1579.
1579 (dated)
1 : 8000000
Description
This is a beautiful, sharp example of Ortelius 1579 map of the Viceroyalty of Culiacan in Northwestern Mexico, and Ortelius map of Cuba and the Caribbean. While Ortelius is generally most esteemed as an editor and compiler of maps, he was an accomplished mapmaker in his own right, and this map is among those of his
Theatrum of his own composition, synthesizing data drawn from Mercator s 1569 world map, Gutierrez s 1562 America map and Alonso de Santa Cruz s 1560
Isolario (sources now unobtainable by the collector). These maps, both of essential areas of recent exploration in the New World, exemplify Ortelius trail-blazing cartographic work.
There have been many ghost ships throughout history, those vessels that just seem to sail on unmanned and unknown, and there are plenty of mysterious shipwrecks out there as well, skirting our efforts to find them. One place one might not expect to find such lost ships is in the middle of a desert wasteland, yet for centuries there have been reports of people finding just that. Here we look into the fantastical tales of lost ships that have somehow managed to find their way into the middle of the most improbable of places.
Since at least the 18th century, there have been numerous legends throughout the American Southwest of people finding mysterious ships improbably out in the middle of the desert, as if dropped there from the sky, and these stories take many forms. Many of the tales come from the Colorado Desert of California, around the Salton Sea and Imperial Valley, and all around the vast Sonora Desert, which covers large parts of the Southwestern United States in Arizona and C