Lone Star-backed supermarket collapses into bankruptcy

Lone Star paid $660m for regional US supermarket chains Bi-Lo and Bruno's in 2004. In 2007, the private equity firm began trying to sell Bi-Lo, a Southern US supermarket operator that has been unable to refinance a maturing term loan amid current credit market conditions.

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