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        <title><![CDATA[Grocery giant Albertsons expects to raise $1.3B in IPO]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Grocery conglomerate Albertsons expects to raise up to $1.3 billion when it goes public amid a coronavirus-related sales boom.</p><p>Some of the Idaho-based company&#8217;s stockholders will sell 65.8 million shares at $18 to $20 apiece in the upcoming initial public offering, Albertsons said Thursday. The high end of that price range would value Albertsons at roughly $11.6 billion.</p><p>Albertsons will give the IPO&#8217;s underwriters an option to buy another 9.8 million shares, which would bring the offering&#8217;s total proceeds to as much as $1.5 billion, according to a <strong>securities filing.</strong> The company said it won&#8217;t receive any proceeds from the IPO as its stockholders are selling the shares rather than Albertsons itself.</p><p>Albertsons — whose store brands include Safeway, Vons and its eponymous chain — first filed for an IPO in March and now plans to list on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol &#8220;ACI.&#8221; The shares will likely start trading late next week, <strong>according to The Wall Street Journal</strong>.</p><p>Albertsons is owned by billionaire Steve Feinberg&#8217;s buyout firm Cerberus Capital Management. The IPO would give Cerberus a way out of its investment in the company.</p><p>Albertsons and other grocers have seen their sales explode amid the coronavirus pandemic, which has led consumers to stock up while locked down. The company has said its same-store sales surged 47 percent in March, followed by a 21 percent spike in April.</p><p>Albertsons announced plans for an IPO as it <strong>reached a deal to pay $575 million</strong> to shore up a pension plan covering roughly 50,000 supermarket workers, as The Post reported in March. The company acknowledged the agreement in its IPO filing, saying it expected to “record a material increase” to its pension-related liabilities in its first quarter.</p><p><em>With Post wires</em></p></p></div></p></div>]]></content:encoded>
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