PORTLAND, OR — In a warm Portland courtroom filled with more than two dozen attorneys, a number of reporters, and others, the top executives for Albertsons and Kroger did their best to convince a judge not to put their two-year-long quest to combine on ice.
The testimony was a key part of a three-week trial in the Federal Trade Commission’s bid to convince a judge to issue a preliminary injunction to put a hold on Kroger’s $25 billion bid to acquire Albertsons.