Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. announced that The Toronto Stock Exchange has approved its share repurchase program. The company is now authorized to repurchase up to 2,685,335 Class A multiple voting shares (representing 5 % of the 53,706,712 Class A multiple voting shares issued and outstanding) and 11,621,801 Class B subordinate voting shares (representing 10 % of the 116,218,014 [...]
Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. has allowed its tender offer to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Casey’s General Stores Inc. for $38.50 per share in cash to expire at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on Sept. 30, 2010. At the expiration of the offer, certain conditions to the offer had not been satisfied and [...]
After Casey’s shareholders rejected Couche-Tard’s nominees for the board of directors last week, and instead reelected its standing board, analysts are weighing in on whether or not Couche-Tard is out of the game and whether 7-Eleven will come through with a bid. U.S. billionaire and hedge fund manager Steven Cohen, founder of SAC Capital Advisors [...]
Casey’s General Stores Inc. today announced that, based on a preliminary vote count provided by its proxy solicitor, shareholders have reelected by a wide margin all eight of the company’s incumbent directors to Casey’s Board of Directors at the Company’s Annual Meeting held earlier today, Sept. 23. The incumbent directors include: Diane C. Bridgewater, Johnny [...]
Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. challenges Casey’s to announce any developments relating to 7-Eleven’s non-binding preliminary bid on Sept. 2, ahead of the 2010 Annual Meeting of Shareholders scheduled for Sept. 23. “We believe that disclosure of 7-Eleven’s preliminary, non-binding indication of interest is yet another attempt to obfuscate the choices that have been presented to the [...]
Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. is again appealing to Casey’s shareholders ahead of this week’s annual shareholders meeting set for Sept. 23. It urged shareholders to consider the following when voting: “7-Eleven has not made a formal offer to acquire Casey’s. Unlike Couche-Tard’s $38.50 per share fully-financed cash premium offer to acquire all of the outstanding shares [...]
Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc., through its wholly-owned indirect subsidiary, Mac’s Convenience Stores LLC, is set to acquire 12 stores in the Indianapolis, Ind., area from Crystal Flash Petroleum LLC, which operates under the “Crystal Flash” banner. The transaction is anticipated to close in September 2010 and is subject to standard regulatory approvals and closing conditions. According [...]
Casey’s General Stores Inc. has officially confirmed that it has entered discussions with 7-Eleven Inc., regarding a potential acquisition. On Sept. 2, 2010, Casey’s received an unsolicited preliminary proposal from 7-Eleven regarding a consensual transaction at $40 per share in cash. As disclosed in Casey’s Schedule 14D-9 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on [...]
Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. has sent a letter to the Board of Directors of Casey’s General Stores Inc. in response to the chain’s announcement that it has authorized discussions with 7-Eleven involving a possible acquisition after repeatedly rebuffing Couche-Tard’s offers for the company. In the letter, the company expressed its dismay with Casey’s refusal to discuss [...]
Casey’s General Stores Inc. has released its first quarter of fiscal 2011 results ended July 31, 2010, and with it an announcement that it has signed commitments to acquire an additional 52 locations, which it anticipates purchasing by the end of the calendar year. Casey’s reported basic earnings per share of $0.73 and approximately $6.2 [...]
7-Eleven is the previously unnamed third party bidder that has offered to buy Casey’s General Stores for $2.03 billion or $40 per share, the Wall Street Journal reported. 7-Eleven’s $40-a-share offer surpasses Alimentation Couche-Tard’s bid of $38.50 a share. Casey’s has rejected Couche-Tard’s advances since it placed its first hostile bid for the company back [...]
Couche-Tard has some competition in its quest to acquire Casey’s General Stores Inc. Casey’s announced that it has received a preliminary proposal from a strategic third party regarding a consensual transaction at $40 per share in cash. Casey’s General Stores Inc.’s Board of Directors today, Sept. 7, unanimously recommended against Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc.’s revised tender [...]
Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. today responded to the announcement by Casey’s General Stores Inc. that it had authorized discussions with a third party regarding a preliminary non-binding proposal to acquire Casey’s: “We are pleased that Casey’s is now in ‘revlon’ mode given that the Casey’s Board of Directors has finally made the decision to put the [...]
Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. has increased its tender offer for Casey’s General Stores to $38.50 per share in cash, as Casey’s responds by advising its shareholders not to take any action as it reviews the revised bid. The revised offer of $38.50 is $0.50 per share higher than the price at which a majority of outstanding [...]
Casey’s General Stores Inc. has announced the preliminary results of its modified “Dutch auction” self tender offer, which expired on Aug. 25, 2010 at midnight New York City time, determining the recapitalization was a success. Based on the preliminary count, a total of approximately 28.2 million shares were validly tendered at the minimum purchase price [...]