TOKYO -- With its founding family plotting a management buyout, Japan's Seven & i Holdings now has three choices for its future: going private with the family, accepting a takeover bid by Canada's Alimentation Couche-Tard, or going it alone.
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Seven & i acquisition drama jolted by founding family buyout twist
Both acquisition proposals face funding, regulatory hurdles
Seven & i Vice President and founding family member Junro Ito, left, and Alimentation Couche-Tard founder and Executive Chairman Alain Bouchard. (Source photos by Nikkei)
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