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Freds acquisitions, on the record

The businesses Freds bought and sold, as its annual reports describe them, with the cash it reported paying for acquisitions each year and every deal filing since 2016.

Deals its annual reports describe

Business	Deal	When	Value
865 Rite Aid stores and certain other assets Word for word“On December 20, 2016, the Company announced that it entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement with Walgreens and Rite Aid to purchase 865 Rite Aid stores and certain other assets for $950 million in cash.” 10-K for 2017	agreed acquisition	December 20, 2016	$950 million
Reeves-Sain Drug Store, Inc. Word for word“On April 10, 2015, we acquired 100% of the equity interests in Reeves-Sain Drug Store, Inc., a provider of retail and specialty pharmaceutical services.” 10-K for 2017	acquisition	April 10, 2015	—
four new and 18 incremental pharmacies Word for word“In 2016, the Company invested $12.7 million in the expansion of our pharmacy departments, which was used to acquire four new and 18 incremental pharmacies.” 10-K for 2017	acquisition	In 2016	$12.7 million
Specialty pharmacy business Word for word“As discussed in Note 1, during the fourth quarter of 2017, Fred’s Board of Directors approved a plan to actively market its specialty pharmacy business.” 10-K for 2018	agreed divestiture	—	—
Pharmacies Word for word“Additionally, $1.9 million was invested in the acquisitions of pharmacies in 2017.” 10-K for 2018	acquisition	2017	$1.9 million
prescription files and related assets from 179 retail pharmacy stores (sold to Walgreen Co.) Word for word“During the fourth quarter of fiscal 2018, we completed our sale of certain prescription files and the related data and records, retail pharmaceutical inventory and certain other assets from 179 of the Company’s retail pharmacy stores to Walgreen Co. for a cash purchase price of approximately $176.7 million.” 10-K for 2019	divestiture	During the fourth quarter of fiscal 2018	approximately $176.7 million

Deal filings since 2016

2019-11-05 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2019-09-13 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2019-07-15 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2019-07-05 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2019-05-16 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2018-12-11 Form 8-K, Item 2.01: Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets
2018-11-27 Form 8-K, Item 2.01: Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets
2018-10-19 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2018-10-11 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2018-09-10 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2018-08-29 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2018-06-04 Form 8-K, Item 2.01: Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets
2018-05-11 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2017-09-18 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2017-08-14 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2017-08-03 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2017-06-28 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2017-06-16 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2017-06-12 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2017-05-31 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2017-05-25 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2017-04-24 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2017-02-02 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2017-01-24 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2016-12-30 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2016-12-27 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2016-12-20 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement

Read from Freds’s annual reports (10-K for 2019, 10-K for 2018, 10-K for 2017) and the financial data it files with the SEC, as of 2019-05-03. Every quotation is word for word from the filing linked beside it; how these pages are built and checked. The full record is in its company data sheet.