The Billion-Dollar Battle to Own 7-Eleven
Now a new player believes it can do a better job at creating a global convenience store empire. Canadian company Couche-Tard, owner of Circle K stores, has made an unsolicited bid to buy Seven & i Holdings, the parent of 7-Eleven. On the Bloomberg Originals mini-documentary Why There's a Battle to Own 7-Eleven, we discuss how the famous chain had its start and why its Japanese locations are so different from those in the US.
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