LET'S MAKE A DEAL

摘要

Supermarket giant Albertson's Inc. hasn't made a sizable acquisition since 1999. Executives at the Boise (Idaho)-based company figured there was no point. Sellers, they said, still had delusions of collecting the grand prices of the bubble years. But reality finally seems to be setting in, and that's partly why Albertson's says that it will go after some big fish in the coming year. "Sellers' heads are now coming out of the clouds," says Eric J. Cremers, a senior vice-president of corporate strategy and business development at Albertson's, adding that the company has a lot of deals "in the hopper."