Couche-Tard withdraws $47 billion takeover offer for Seven & i
The move comes nearly a year after Couche-Tard, which owns Circle K convenience stores, first offered to purchase the 7-Eleven operator.
The Canadian company had also agreed to a store sale plan, in a bid to ease some regulatory hurdles as a takeover would have created a global convenience store giant with about 20,000 locations.
"We have repeatedly sought a friendly dialogue with the Ito family but they have not been open to any conversation," Couche-Tard said in a letter to its board of directors.
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