Safeway’s bid to expand into Northern Ireland has stalled. The supermarket group is at loggerheads with Tony O’Reilly’s Fitzwilton group over a possible takeover of Fitzwilton’s 36 Wellworth supermarkets.
Safeway wants to acquire only a dozen of the 36 supermarkets on offer while Fitzwilton believes it would make no sense to dispose of its most prized assets while keeping the less revered ones.
- The Observer Business 09/02/97 page 3
