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(Reuters) - Turkish conglomerate Anadolu Group has offered to buy a 40.25 percent stake in supermarket chain Migros from BC Partners, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, citing a notification on the Borsa Istanbul stock exchange.
Anadolu offered 26 lira per share ($11.475), a premium of 36 percent to Migros's closing price on Thursday. This would put the market capitalisation of the company at 3.4 billion lira, the report said. (http://www.ft.com/fastft?post=215372)
The offer was made by Anadolu Industry, the holding company of the group, the FT reported.
London-based BC Partners, a private equity group, which owns about 80 percent of Migros, has been in informal talks to sell the chain for many years, but a slowdown in the Turkish economy and fall in value of lira against the dollar has made it difficult to do so, the newspaper reported.
The notification was issued by a holding company for BC Partners' stake in Migros which said that both the sides were in talks, the FT reported.
BC Partners had bought Migros in 2008 for $3.25 billion with the help of Turkey's Turkven and Italy's DeA Capital, beating a bid by larger rival Blackstone and Croatian food group Agrokor. (http://reut.rs/1rQyV1n)
Representatives at Anadolu, Migros and BC Partners were not immediately available for comment.
(1 US dollar = 2.2658 Turkish lira)
(Reporting by Shivam Srivastava in Bangalore; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)