Bain to buy Japan's largest smartphone retailer for $980m

Sumitomo Corp. and Hikari Tsushin to sell T-Gaia stakes

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Japan's T-Gaia runs over 1,700 retail outlets for NTT DoCoMo, KDDI, SoftBank and other service providers. (Source photos by Nikkei)

Nikkei staff writers

TOKYO -- Bain Capital announced on Monday that it will acquire Japan's largest cellphone sales agent, T-Gaia, purchasing the stakes of major shareholders Sumitomo Corp. and Tokyo-based Hikari Tsushin.

The U.S. private equity group's total purchase price in taking the retailer private is expected to exceed 140 billion yen ($980 million).

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