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Fresh Market to be bought by Apollo, not Kroger. Lisa Green helps to get the cheese department ready at The Fresh Market in Jacksonville, Fla. The Fresh Market, a grocery store chain, has agreed to be acquired by private equity firm Apollo for more than $1.3 billion. Fresh Market, based in Greensboro, N.C., has nearly 190 stores around the country. Apollo Global Management LLC is based in New York.
Fresh Market, which has struggled amid increasing natural and organic grocery competition, put itself in play last fall when it announced it had retained JPMorgan as its financial advisor to explore various options. On Thursday, Kroger is scheduled to report fourth-quarter earnings before the market opens. Investors will be looking for an update on its acquisition of Midwest regional grocer Roundy's, an $800 million deal completed in December.