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Icahn Takes 12% Stake in Pep Boys, Sees Fit for Rival

2015-12-05 01:39:47| Auto Parts - Topix.net

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn reported on Friday that he now owns 12.12% of auto parts company Pep Boys-Manny, Moe & Jack, which agreed to sell itself to Bridgestone in October, and said its retail automotive parts segment would be a perfect fit for rival Auto Plus. Icahn began buying the shares in late November and now owns 6.55 million shares, making him the second largest owner after Mario Gabelli's Gabelli Funds, a regulatory filing shows.

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Pep Boys: Unwilling helpers in '85 strike

2015-11-15 15:02:39| Auto Parts - Topix.net

Since Philadelphia's World Heritage City designation was announced within days of the news that the Pep Boys automotive-store empire had been sold to a Japanese conglomerate for $835 million, I wonder if that means Manny, Moe, and Jack are now icons subject to historic preservation? What Philadelphia business symbol is more recognized than the comforting - some might say disturbing - images of Manny, Moe, and Jack posed heroically atop an automotive store? The Pep Boys - caricatures of three of the company's four founders, Manny Rosenfeld, Moe Strauss, and Graham "Jack" Jackson - have been the advertising face of the business since the first store opened in West Philadelphia.

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Pep Boys win and Arbs lose again

2015-10-28 12:54:47| Auto Parts - Topix.net

The Pep Boys car-maintenance chain said Monday morning that it's being sold to a unit of Bridgestone for about $835 million. That's a 23 percent premium to its value last week and sounds like a decent offer -- but for arbitrageurs, any chance to make a good chunk of change evaporated within a minute of the press release, which hit at 8:30 a.m. New York time.

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Phila. icon Pep Boys being sold to Bridgestone

2015-10-27 09:20:52| Industrial Machines - Topix.net

Manny Moe & Jack, the iconic Philadelphia-based auto-parts and service store chain, has agreed to be sold to Bridgestone Corp., the Japan-based tire maker that owns Firestone stores. Bridgestone will pay $15 a share, or $835 million, for the 800-store, barely profitable company, which has 14,000 employees in 35 states and yearly sales of $2 billion.

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Bridgestone Buying Pep Boys For About $835 Million

2015-10-26 16:26:04| Auto Parts - Topix.net

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