With its considerable cash flow and slumping stock price, is
Kohl's Corp., an attractive acquisition candidate for a private equity
firm?
The Wall Street Journal recently reported that directors of
Kohl's are weighing possibilities such as going private.
A sale of the Menomonee Falls company could have profound
effects locally. Private equity firms often seek to wring costs out of their
acquisitions. Kohl's employs approximately 5,000 people at its
headquarters.
Read more at the Journal Sentinel of Milwaukee, WI at Kohl's
Corp. directors considering taking company private.
Kohl's has 1,166 department stores across 49 states, the
result of aggressive expansion during the 2000s that more than tripled the
total. This expansion appears to have caught up with them.
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Kohl’s here on the Apparel Search fashion company guide. You can obviously
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information.