Tokyo — Panasonic will buy US supply-chain software firm Blue Yonder for ¥700bn  ($6.45bn), in the Japanese electronics firm’s biggest acquisition since 2011, the Nikkei reported on Monday.   

Panasonic, which bought a 20% stake in Blue Yonder for ¥86bn  last year, is in the final stages of acquiring the rest of the stock from shareholders including Blackstone Group, the Nikkei said, without saying where it obtained the information...

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