Owner of 7-Eleven stores receives buyout offer from Canadian rival - Retail industry

Proposal to Tokyo-based Seven & i by ACT could become biggest foreign takeover of a Japanese firm The owner of the global convenience store chain 7-Eleven has received an offer from a Canadian rival to buy the company, in what could be Japans biggest ever foreign takeover. The Tokyo-based Seven & i revealed on Monday that it had received a bid from the Canadian convenience store multinational Alimentation Couche-Tard (ACT