7-Eleven shares plunge on reported plan to reject takeover

Tokyo:   Shares of the owner of 7-Eleven fell on Tuesday ( Mar 4 ) after a report revealed that the Japanese retailer intended to reject a multibillion-dollar takeover offer from Canada’s Alimentation Couche-Tard (ACT).

An ACT give worth almost US$ 40 billion that would have been the largest international merger of a Chinese company was rejected by Seven &amp, document, which owns roughly 85, 000 comfort stores worldwide.

A unique commission, which is looking into ACT’s raised present of apparently US$ 47 billion, has officially decided to decline that request, according to The Yomiuri Daily.

Given Seven &amp, document, and ACT’s clashing network of businesses in the United States, the regular added, the decision was largely due to antitrust concerns.

In day trading in Tokyo, Seven &amp, i stock dropped 8 percent to 2, 023 in comparison, dropping as much as 12 percent, touching their lowest level in less than six months.