7-Eleven gets takeover offer from Circle K owner Shares in Seven & i jumped more than 20% following reports of the buyout bid
The owner of convenience store giant 7-Eleven has received a buyout offer from Canadian rival Alimentation Couche-Tard (ACT), which runs the Circle K chain.
Tokyo-based Seven & i Holdings says it has formed a special committee to decide whether or not to accept the offer.
Shares in Seven & i jumped by more than 20% on the news.
That gave the Japanese firm a stock market valuation of around 5.6tn yen ($38.5bn; £29.7bn).
In a statement, Seven & i said it had "received a confidential, non-binding and preliminary proposal by ACT to acquire all [of its] outstanding shares".
"[The] Special Committee intends to conduct a prompt, careful and comprehensive review of the proposal," it added.
Seven & i has 85,000 outlets worldwide in 20 countries and territories and has a large footprint in Asia.
Quebec-based ACT is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and runs around 17,000 shops more than 30 countries across North America Europe and Asia under the brands Circle K and Couche-Tard.
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7-Eleven收到來自Circle K母公司收購提議
在收購報導出現後,Seven & i的股價上漲了超過20%
便利店巨頭7-Eleven的母公司收到來自加拿大競爭對手Alimentation Couche-Tard (ACT)的收購提議,後者運營著Circle K連鎖店。
總部位於東京的Seven & i Holdings表示,已成立特別委員會以決定是否接受該提議。
消息傳出後,Seven & i的股價上漲了超過20%。
這使得這家日本公司的市值達到約5.6萬億日元(385億美元;297億英鎊)。
Seven & i在聲明中表示,已「收到ACT提出的機密的、無約束力的初步收購提議,收購[其]所有流通股」。
「[該]特別委員會打算對該提議進行迅速、仔細且全面的審查」,聲明補充道。
Seven & i在全球20個國家和地區擁有85,000家門店,並且在亞洲擁有大量的市場份額。
ACT總部位於魁北克,並在多倫多證券交易所上市,在北美、歐洲和亞洲的30多個國家運營著約17,000家門店,品牌包括Circle K和Couche-Tard。