Seven & i potential buyer Couche-Tard is skilled M&A tactician

Canadian company's buyout of Japanese 7-Eleven parent would be its biggest yet

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Alimentation Couche-Tard has expanded its convenience store network in Canada under the brand name Couche-Tard. © Reuters

Nikkei staff writers

TOKYO/LONDON/NEW YORK -- Alimentation Couche-Tard, the Canadian convenience store group that sent a friendly, nonbinding takeover proposal to Japan's Seven & i Holdings, is known as a master of mergers and acquisitions, one that now eyes the 85,000 7-Eleven stores worldwide.

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