Can Taking Hudson’s Bay Private Save the Ailing Retail Company?

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Struggling Canadian department store chain Hudson's Bay Co., owner of Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor, might be going private.

A group of Hudson’s Bay shareholders, spearheaded by Executive Chairman Richard Baker, has offered a cash bid valued at $1.74 billion Canadian dollars (or roughly US $1.31 billion) to take the company private.. . . more