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THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Brussels, is reportedly about to open an investigation of the proposed merger between Carrefour and Promodes, two major French retailers. A French trade publication said last week the investigation will delay the merger until late May and will definitely result in store divestitures. ons with government officials, the company said. The distribution center will serve Fleming's

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Brussels, is reportedly about to open an investigation of the proposed merger between Carrefour and Promodes, two major French retailers. A French trade publication said last week the investigation will delay the merger until late May and will definitely result in store divestitures.

ons with government officials, the company said. The distribution center will serve Fleming's existing retail customers in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia and New Jersey. The closings are a part of a cost-savings program Fleming launched in November.

SUTTON PLACE GOURMET, Bethesda, Md., said it would build a second Manhattan branch of Balducci's, a more than 50-year-old Greenwich Village food specialty shop it acquired last year. The new Balducci's, on the West Side near Lincoln Center, will feature a 7,300-square-foot retail store above a 6,300-square-foot basement kitchen. A spokesman for Sutton Place said the company has no plans to spread the Balducci's format outside New York.