Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. disclosed that it now holds 40,000,000 shares (13% of the total outstanding). The firm's holdings are in the form of warrants, at $7.41 per share, which they purchased in a private placement of convertible senior notes on Sept. 23. As a condition of the transaction, two representatives of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. were named to Eastman Kodak's board on Sept. 29.

Warburg Pincus now has 40,208,769 shares (10.8%). The firm acquired its stake on Oct. 1, when it swapped shares of Metavante, which was acquired by Fidelity National Information Services.

Blum Capital Partners upped its holdings to 3,622,728 shares (8%), after buying 615,391 from Sept. 8 through Oct. 7 at price ranging from $7.65 to $9.31 per share.

Centennial Energy Partners increased its holdings to 55,545,796 shares (19.94%), after purchasing 15,000,000 shares and warrants to acquire an additional 15,000,000 shares on Oct. 15. Centennial paid about $1.13 per share for the stock, and its warrants are priced at $1.55 Canadian, or about US$1.51 per share.

Gamco Investors (GBL) raised its holdings to 1,867,389 shares (14.52%), by buying 51,686 from Aug. 20 to Oct. 9 at prices that ranged from $15.52 to $17.08.

Sandler Capital Management owns 3,740,182 shares (4.1%), after selling 1,265,018 from Sept. 1 to Oct. 9 at $9.32 to $12.99 each. Sandler declared that its sales were related to maintaining the weighting of its Bare Escentuals position in its portfolio.

Director and Co-Founder Leonard Riggio reduced his holdings to 9,119,149 shares (5.4%), after selling 2,253,826 from Oct. 6 through Oct. 8 at $26.72 per share.

Discovery Group sold all of its 1,510,299 shares from Oct. 9 through Oct. 12 at prices that ranged from $12.58 to $12.60 a share. The disposal of Discovery's nearly 6.2% stake came after Kimberly-Clark (KMB) had agreed to buy I-Flow for $12.65 a share in cash.