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...Couche-Tard was advised by Rothschild, where Mr Macron worked from 2008 to 2010....
...Canadian convenience store group Alimentation Couche-Tard has approached France’s Carrefour about a takeover that would combine two retail groups jointly worth more than $50bn....
...Canada’s Alimentation Couche-Tard has broken off €16.2bn takeover talks with Carrefour after opposition from the French government over the deal’s potential impact on the country’s food security and jobs...
...France has reiterated its opposition to the €16.2bn takeover of supermarket group Carrefour by Canada’s Alimentation Couche-Tard, dealing a major setback to the groups’ hopes that they could overcome government...
...Had Couche-Tard been an EU company, the government would have had no grounds to intervene....
...Adding Speedway would also expand its share of the US convenience store market from 5.9 per cent to 8.5 per cent, pushing it further ahead of its closest rival, Canada’s Alimentation Couche-Tard....
...The episode comes after the French government in January blocked Carrefour from pursuing a takeover offer from Canada’s Couche-Tard that would have valued the group at €20 per share, arguing the retailer...
...Carrefour has also become a takeover target: Canada’s Couche-Tard showed interest last year before the French government scuppered its approach and smaller domestic rival Auchan wants to revive a bid after...
...The company was approached in January by Canada’s Couche-Tard, which operates convenience stores and petrol stations, about a takeover that would have valued it at about €20 per share....
...Bompard himself has examined several options, including shortlived talks with Casino in 2018, an aborted takeover bid from Canada’s Couche-Tard last year, and most recently a potential tie-up with smaller...
...But it also swiftly vetoed Canadian convenience store operator Couche-Tard’s bid for French supermarket group Carrefour in January, on the basis that it was a strategically important company for food supply...
...Companies ranging from Austria’s Erste Group to Canadian convenience store group Alimentation Couche-Tard have touted to shareholders the greenium financial savings they have achieved with green bonds....
...The offer comes from Couche-Tard, a Canadian group that runs convenience stores mostly at petrol stations....
...Canadian convenience store group Alimentation Couche-Tard has approached France’s Carrefour about a takeover in a deal that would combine two retail groups jointly worth more than $50bn....
...It also comes two months after Couche-Tard, a Canadian convenience store chain, made a takeover bid worth €16.2bn for Carrefour that was thwarted by French government opposition....
...(FT) Canada’s Couche-Tard in takeover talks with France’s Carrefour Canadian convenience store group Alimentation Couche-Tard has approached France’s Carrefour about a takeover that would combine two retail...
...The French state would have been within its rights to impose conditions on the takeover and to block it if Couche-Tard had refused to accept them....
...Immunity from foreign takeover at Danone was established long before Couche-Tard’s attempt to buy supermarket chain Carrefour was blocked....
...And Canadian convenience store operator Couche-Tard tried earlier this year to buy Carrefour but was blocked by the French government. Will the valuation gap make Tesco a target too? Probably not....
...Those rivals — Blackburn-based EG Group and Canadian convenience store operator Alimentation Couche-Tard — had made offers closer to $17bn, said two people involved in the discussions....
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