Sears sues Eddie Lampert for looting company

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/18/sears-sues-eddie-lampert-steven-mnuchin-others-for-alleged-thefts.html Sears accuses its former CEO Eddie Lampert of stealing billions of dollars from the once-storied retailer. Sears Holdings filed for bankruptcy in October, after years of losses under Lampert, who was then its chairman, CEO and largest shareholder. “Altogether, …

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Sears Closing All Stores

https://twitter.com/NewsBreaking/status/1082644250934870017 Sears has not accepted Chairman Eddie Lampert’s bid to save the company. According to CNBC, Sears plans to announce its liquidation plans this morning.  Lampert had attempted to save the company with a $4.4 billion bid and buying it …

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Sears Hires Advisers to Prepare Bankruptcy Filing

by COMPUTER1313 https://www.wsj.com/articles/sears-hires-advisers-to-prepare-bankruptcy-filing-1539136189 https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/10/sears-reportedly-preparing-for-bankruptcy-filing-as-soon-as-this-week.html Sears, which has been losing money for years, has $134 million in debt due on Monday. Edward Lampert, the hedge-fund manager who is Sears’s chairman, chief executive, largest shareholder and biggest creditor, could rescue the company, …

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SEARS, KMART closing more stores

Sears Holdings is closing at least three additional stores as the retailer faces serious questions about its future heading into the crucial holiday shopping season. The company is closing one Sears store in New York, a Kmart in New York …

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Sears is now a penny stock.

SEARS now penny stock… In the latest indignity for a once-grand retailer, the share price fell below $1 on Friday for the first time in the company’s history, dropping as much as 15% to 85 cents in midday trading. Falling …

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Sears CEO’s hedge fund pushes retailer to restructure debt, sell off assets as part of turnaround effort

by COMPUTER1313 http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-lampert-sears-debt-proposal-0925-story.html Lampert’s ESL Investments wants Hoffman Estates-based Sears Holdings Corp. to restructure more than $1 billion in debt and sell about $1.5 billion in real estate and about $1.75 billion other assets, including the company’s popular Kenmore appliance …

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Another Sears Holdings Spinoff Dies

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Lowe’s finally seems to get the brick-and-mortar meltdown. Orchard Supply Hardware – whose mission was, according to its site, “to be America’s neighborhood hardware and garden store focused on paint, repair, and the backyard” – is an iconic …

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