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Sears Holdings acquisitions, on the record

The businesses Sears Holdings 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

BusinessDealWhenValue
Seritage (50% interest in the JVs)
Word for word“(1) Holdings received cash proceeds of $2.7 billion ( $2.6 billion , net of closing costs) from the Seritage transaction (including $745 million and $297 million , respectively, received from ESL and its affiliates and Fairholme and its affiliates), and $429 million ( $426 million , net of closing costs) from the JV transactions.” 10-K for 2016
divestiture—$429 million ( $426 million , net of closing costs)
Craftsman brand
Word for word“Finally, in March 2017, the Company closed its previously-announced sale of the Craftsman brand to Stanley Black & Decker.” 10-K for 2017
divestiture——
Kmart and Sears
Word for word“Holdings, the parent company of Kmart and Sears, was formed in connection with the March 24, 2005 merger of these two companies.” 10-K for 2018
mergerMarch 24, 2005—

Deal filings since 2016

Read from Sears Holdings’s annual reports (10-K for 2018, 10-K for 2017, 10-K for 2016) and the financial data it files with the SEC, as of 2018-03-23. 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.