TOKYO (Standard&Poor's) Sept. 25, 2014--Standard&Poor's Ratings Services today said that its ratings on Japan-based retailer AEON Co. Ltd. (BBB+/Negative/--) would not be immediately affected by the company's announcement that it will make supermarket chain The Daiei Inc. a wholly-owned subsidiary through stock swaps for minority interests in January 2015. We believe this move will not immediately affect our ratings on AEON, because we already incorporate business and financial profiles for Daiei, a consolidated subsidiary, into our assumptions under our base-case scenario for AEON. Also, AEON will not take on an additional funding burden, because it plans to use stock swaps to acquire the minority interests of Japan-based trading company Marubeni Corp. and others. Since making Daiei