Report: Carrefour may sell Japan unit
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TOKYO: Carrefour is planning to sell its Japanese retail operations to generate cash as its core European sales slump and competition increases, the Asian Wall Street Journal reported yesterday.
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Bouygues SA, the world&#39;s third- biggest builder, may sell its Saur unit, France&#39;s No. 3 water business, to buyout firm PAI Partners for 1.04 billion euros ($1.
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Japanese stocks end at seven-year highs, amid reports of a possible merger that would create a retail giant in the country.
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The resignation fueled speculation of a shift in strategy at Carrefour, which is struggling to meet fierce competition at home and abroad.
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In Japan, that is. The game player's surprising pricing there may indicate what the U.S. market can expect.
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Japan's central bank plans to end its unprecedented policy of buying stocks from the nation's banks this month, a sign that its purchases over the past two years have helped restore stability to the financial system, Britain's Financial Times newspaper reported Wednesday.
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Takefuji Corp., Japan&#39;s third-biggest consumer-finance company, may buy 100 billion yen ($945 million) of stock from founder Yasuo Takei in a bid to foil a takeover by Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
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A U.S. private investment company appears to be trying to grab a larger stake of Japan's NEC Electronics.
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Carrefour, the world's No. 2 retailer, posted a weaker-than-expected rise in quarterly sales on Tuesday and warned it would not reach annual sales and profit targets amid a sharp deterioration in its markets.
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By Kyodo News International, Tokyo  Mar. 9--TOKYO -- The Tokyo Stock Exchange will be able to make a decision  on the delisting of Nikko Cordial Corp.
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is in talks with  the founding family Takefuji Corp., the biggest player in  Japan's $100 billion consumer finance industry, that may result  in the U.S. firm buying about a third of the company for more  than $2.7 billion, a financial source said.
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French retail giant Carrefour SA has denied a press report it is planning to sell its operations in Japan.
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Citigroup  is set to launch a tender offer for scandal-hit Nikko Cordial Corp. , and the Japanese brokerage is considering the bid favorably, a Nikko Cordial spokesman said on Tuesday.
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The vice chairman of Japan's Sony Corp. said the company would consider spinning off its entertainment assets as a separately quoted business, a UK newspaper reported on Friday.
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LaBranche & Co. Inc. , which runs one of the largest specialist trading operations on the New York Stock Exchange floor, may consider selling all or part of itself, a person familiar with the matter said on Monday.
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Britain's Cable and Wireless is in talks to leave Japan by selling its money-losing Japanese unit to Softbank or an investment firm of Tokyo, a report said.
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The largest shareholder in the Nikko Cordial Corporation has rejected a $10.8 billion takeover offer from Citigroup, saying that the price is too low. The shareholder, Harris Associates of Chicago, which manages money for individual and institutional investors, believes that Nikko is worth more than 2,000 yen a share, the chief investment officer, David G. Herro, said. The offer made by Citigroup was for 1,350 yen. The share price of Nikko, which is based in Tokyo, advanced 14 percent before the Citigroup offer was announced on Tuesday and it rose another 1.3 percent yesterday, closing at 1,357 yen a share. Harris owns about 7.5 percent of Nikko.