Bain, KKR bid to acquire Seven & i's supermarket business

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Seven & i Holdings, operator of the 7-Eleven convenience store chain hopes selling off noncore businesses will help it fend off a takeover bid by Alimentation Couche-Tard. (Photo by Makoto Okada)

Nikkei staff writers

TOKYO -- U.S. investment funds, including Bain Capital, KKR, and Fortress Investment Group, have bid for Seven & i Holdings' supermarket and restaurant business holding company in the first round of tendering called by the Japanese retailer, Nikkei has learned.

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