This size of Japanese corporation has never been acquired by a foreign company.
In the past, Japanese enterprises had a higher propensity to acquire foreign companies.
7-Eleven is the largest convenience store chain in the world, operating 85,000 locations in 20 different nations and territories.
Additionally, it has had particular success marketing itself as a quick, inexpensive, and delicious dinner choice in nations like Thailand and Japan where there is already a dearth of those kinds of restaurants.
“We have more stores than McDonald’s or Starbucks,” Seven & i Holdings CEO Ryuichi Isaka said to News prior to the company.
Of the 85,000 stores, about 25% are located in Japan, and the US has about 10,000.
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In contrast, Alimentation Couche-Tard, a Quebec-based company that runs the Circle K chain, has about 17,000 locations throughout 31 nations and territories. North America is home to more than half of its stores.
