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But if Alimentation Couche-Tard (ACT), a Canadian retailer that operates the Circle K chain of shops, has its way, 7-Eleven will no longer be Japanese. On August 19th Seven & i, 7-Eleven’s parent ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's private sector expansion accelerated in August to the fastest since May 2023, driven by improvements in the service sector alongside renewed modest growth of manufacturing output. ( read original story ...)

PwC faces a six-month business ban in China, and Mexico’s Supreme Court judges go on strike. Plus, a potential takeover of 7-Eleven may set the tone for a new era of Japanese acquisitions. ( read original story ...)

A group led by KKR & Co. and one of Japan’s largest real estate companies made a bid to acquire a Tokyo skyscraper owned by Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC Pte, according to people familiar with ... ( read original story ...)

The Japanese Foreign Ministry said a Japanese man in his 50s ... reaching billions of people worldwide every day. Reuters provides business, financial, national and international news to professionals ... ( read original story ...)

Japan set a second-straight monthly record for visitors in July, official data showed on Friday, as the weak yen and summer holidays propelled a tourism boom.The number of foreign visitors for ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (AP) — Japan racked up a 621 billion yen ($4.3 billion) trade deficit in July, as prices of imports surged, according to government data released Wednesday. Japan’s imports grew nearly 17% from ... ( read original story ...)

Seven & i grew from small beginnings, tracing its origins to the small family-owned Yokado Clothing Store that first opened in Tokyo in 1920. The retailer, then known as Ito-Yokado, expanded rapidly ... ( read original story ...)

When the owner of 7-Eleven announced this week that it had received a buyout offer from a Canadian rival it triggered shockwaves in Japan. A Japanese company of this size has never been bought by a ... ( read original story ...)

S even & i Holdings, the Japanese company behind the global 7-Eleven convenience store chain, has received a non-binding takeover bid from Alimentation Couche-Tard, the Canadian operator of the rival ... ( read original story ...)

Two days after the scissors went missing, airport authorities said they'd been found pretty much where they should have been. ( read original story ...)

The Canadian owner of Circle K convenience stores has made a bid to buy 7-Eleven in what would be the biggest foreign takeover of a Japanese company on record. ( read original story ...)

Until now, an attempt to acquire such a well-known Japanese business at such scale would have been dismissed as audacious and unlikely, given the protectionist tendencies of the government and ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO : Japan's government plans to raise its long-term interest rate estimate used to compile the state budget to 2.1 per cent for the next fiscal year from the current year's 1.9 per cent, the ... ( read original story ...)

Seven & i Holdings says it will review the takeover offer from Canada's Alimentation Couche-Tard, which would unite the 7-Eleven and Circle K brands. ( read original story ...)

The operator of 7-Eleven convenience stores and other retail chains in Japan said that it has received a buyout offer from Canada's Alimentation Couche-Tard. ( read original story ...)