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Couche-Tard Ends Yearlong Pursuit of 7-Eleven Owner as Turnaround Pressure Builds
Couche-Tard Ends Yearlong Pursuit of 7-Eleven Owner as Turnaround Pressure Builds

Bloomberg

time17-07-2025

  • Business
  • Bloomberg

Couche-Tard Ends Yearlong Pursuit of 7-Eleven Owner as Turnaround Pressure Builds

Canada's Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. dropped its ¥6.77 trillion ($45.8 billion) proposal to buy Seven & i Holdings Co., putting pressure on the operator of 7-Eleven convenience stores to show shareholders it can stage a turnaround in an environment that's made corporate deals more likely in Japan. The yearlong pursuit of what would have been the biggest foreign takeover of a Japanese company ended in acrimony, with Couche-Tard saying Seven & i's founding Ito family had never been open to talks and blaming the board for a 'calculated campaign of obfuscation and delay.'

Generali Offers a Perfect Venue to Fight for Europe's Financial Future
Generali Offers a Perfect Venue to Fight for Europe's Financial Future

Bloomberg

time02-06-2025

  • Business
  • Bloomberg

Generali Offers a Perfect Venue to Fight for Europe's Financial Future

It's no exaggeration to say that what happens at Assicurazioni Generali SpA in the next few months will determine the financial and political map of Italy for years to come – and exert a strong pull on the strategic direction of Europe as a whole. The country's biggest insurer is the key domino in a matrix of banking deals: Which way it falls will affect most of the other proposed alliances. Generali's hometown of Trieste in the northeast corner of Italy is the perfect setting for a decision around which a constellation of corporate deals will turn. This glorious and strange city's patchwork past echoes the fluid history of European nations – it's been Austrian, Napoleonic and Balkan, as well as Italian. The next step for the insurer could leave it chained to a fractious past, or open up a bigger, more European future.

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