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	<title><![CDATA[Supermarket Synergy! Burkle Closing In On Purchase Of AMI]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/11/08/supermarket-synergy-burkl_n_71720.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>Ron Burkle and American Media Inc.'s David Pecker are said to be meeting with banks to finalize the financing for Source Interlink Co., controlled by Burkle-owned Yucaipa Cos., to acquire AMI. So what would the allegedly press-shy Burkle want with Shape, Star, the National Enquirer and Men's Fitness? Well, perhaps not a lot. His interest appears mainly to be in AMI's magazine distribution company DSI, the purchase of which would make Source Interlink one of the largest magazine distributors in...</p>]]></abstract>
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	<date_published>2008-03-28T02:45:00-04:00</date_published>
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