関西スーパー争奪、最高裁へ　オーケーの抗告、大阪高裁が許可

　関西スーパーマーケットの争奪戦で、エイチ・ツー・オー（Ｈ２Ｏ）リテイリンググループとの経営統合を容認した７日の大阪高裁の決定をめぐり、同高裁は８日、決定を不服としてディスカウントスーパーのオーケー（横浜市）から申し立てのあった最高裁への許可抗告を認めた。統合の行方は、最高裁で審理されることになる。
　関西スーパーは、Ｈ２Ｏとの統合承認を求めた１０月の臨時株主総会で、白票（棄権）を投じた法人株主の申し出に応じ、投票締め切り後に賛成票へ変更した。（2021/12/08-13:09）

Osaka High Court on Wednesday allowed OK Corp. to take to Japan's Supreme Court its bid to block the integration of Kansai Super Market Ltd. and H2O Retailing Corp. .
   The move came after OK, a discount supermarket chain based in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, eastern Japan, filed a complaint Tuesday with the high court against its decision the same day to approve the unification of Kansai Super Market and H2O, both operating mainly in western Japan, in a reversal of Kobe District Court's Nov. 22 provisional injunction against the business integration.
   OK, which is also interested in buying Kansai Super Market, asked the Kobe court in western Japan on Nov. 9 to stop the integration, complaining that Kansai Super Market changed a corporate shareholder's vote from blank to affirmative after the balloting was closed at its extraordinary general shareholders meeting Oct. 29.
   In overturning the district court injunction, Osaka High Court, also in western Japan, recognized the change to the affirmative vote as acceptable.
   H2O and Kansai Super Market are slated to integrate their operations Dec. 15.