1、Food Retail Industry Insights S p r i n g 2 0 2 0 2 Food Retail Industry Insights | Spring 2020 Sector Spotlight: COVID-19 Impact 3 Public Company Benchmarking and Valuation 15 Recent Food Retail Transaction Activity 22 About Our Food Retail Corporate Finance Practice 23 T a b l e o f C o n t e n t
2、s Trends and Insights 7 Sources 1.Consumer Spending Tracker for Measured Channels. IRI. April 2, 2020 2.How the Coronavirus Crisis is Changing Grocery Shopping. Supermarket News. April 3, 2020 3.Grocery Workers Are Beginning To Die of Coronavirus. Washington Post. April 6, 2020 4.Food Spending of Mi
3、ddle-Income Households Hardest Hit by the Great Recession. United States Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service. September 27, 2018 5.S however, it did not result in any fundamental changes to the business. Fairway continued to struggle due to market pressures and was unable to compete
4、effectively. Village Supermarket, ShopRites parent company, acquired various stores and assets for USD 76 million. Key Food and Amazon also bought various assets for USD 5 million and USD 1.5 million, respectively.11 Save-A-Lot recently secured a USD 350 million cash infusion to fuel the discount gr
5、ocers business transformation plan. Unlike many of its competitors, the company was able to avoid filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy by successfully carrying out an out-of-court restructuring. On April 3, 2020, Save-A-Lot completed both debt-for-equity and debt-for-debt exchanges that reduced debt by
6、USD 500 million and brought a USD 350 million capital infusion from new and existing lenders.12 Much like industry peers, Save-A-Lot faced competitive pressures but was able to modify its capital structure to better weather such challenges plaguing smaller food retail players. Trends and Insights 2