Wal-Mart buys Asda

July 01, 1999

It is the biggest cash offer ever to be made in the UK and beats that of UK retailer Kingfisher, which had previously bid for the Asda chain. Wal-Mart will finance the acquisition with cash, a commercial paper programme and...

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