TOKYO -- Seven & i Holdings, owner of the 7-Eleven convenience store chain, has received bids from at least seven parties to buy stakes in an intermediate holding company that is set to control the Japanese retail group's non-core businesses, including its supermarket operation.
Ito-Yokado, the retail group's original business and which is well known in Japanese households, will seek more resources to rebuild the unprofitable unit under a new ownership structure.
