The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.----------Seven & i announces plan to focus more on convenience store businessTOKYO - Seven & i Holdings Co. said Thursday it will focus more on its convenience store business by separating it from noncore operations, in a development that came after the Japanese retail giant received a fresh takeover offer from Canada's Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc.Seven & i, which operates the Seven-Eleven convenience store chain, will establish an intermediate holding company to consolidate its other businesses including supermarke…READ FULL ARTICLE
