Japan Convenience Stores Still Innovating in a Saturated Market
The following is an in-depth review of the Japanese convenience store (CVS) sector and, in particular, the top three players, Seven Eleven (Seven...
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Retail Ranking FY2017-18: Winners and Losers in Japanese Retailing
JapanConsuming’s retail ranking for FY2017 has now been compiled, and the results show that the retail industry enjoyed another extremely good year...
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FamilyMart Tender Done - Proration Results In - What Next?
Itochu Corp (8001 JP) and the BOJ bought ~9.6% of shares out and 25% of float of Familymart Uny Holdings (8028 JP) shares in the 13 months prior...
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Did Itochu & BOJ Buying of FamilyMart-UNY in the Past Year Squeeze It Vs Comps?
On April 19th, Itochu Corp (8001 JP) announced that it intended (after all the requisite approvals were in place) to purchase up to 8.65% of...
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Itochu Tender For FamilyMart - Winnie Sees a Hunny Pot But Greedy Bears Get Stuck
A bit over three years ago, FamilyMart (then 8028 JP) and UNY (then 8270 JP) agreed to consider a merger. The two companies took their sweet time...
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