Sept 6 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers,

acquisitions and disposals were reported by 0930 GMT on Friday:

** Poland's InPost will decide whether it will

use its call option for the remaining stake in Britain's Menzies

by the end of this year, CEO Rafal Brzoska said.

** Japanese retail giant Seven & i Holdings ( SVNDF ) said it

had turned down Canada's Alimentation Couche-Tard's ( ANCTF )

$38.5 billion cash bid, rejecting an offer that would be the

largest-ever foreign buyout of a Japanese company.

** Shanghai-based Haitong Securities said it has

agreed to be acquired by its rival Guotai Junan Securities

via a share swap, in one of the largest mergers in

China's securities history.

** Salesforce ( CRM ) said on Thursday it would buy Own

Company, a provider of data protection and management solutions,

for $1.9 billion in cash to accelerate growth of its data

security and privacy products.

(Compiled by Rajarshi Roy and Vallari Srivastava in Bengaluru)