The Subscription Economy: Keeping Customers Keen While Earning Recurring Revenues
Subscriptions to physical goods are rapidly becoming a popular model. In Japan, many major retailers and brands are creating subscriptions, gaining...
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Japan's Big Apparel Trouble: World to Close 350 More Stores
Apparel groups are in trouble, as Renown’s bankruptcy (see Page 8) and Sanyo Shokai’s boardroom battles exemplify, but World always claimed it was...
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The Zozo Revival: A New Private Brand of Many Names, Category Expansion, Merchants Return
ZOZO (3092 JP)'s new plan to create a direct-to-consumer (DtoC) e-commerce platform this October, and fund the brands sold on it, is much more than...
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🇯🇵 JAPAN • Results & Revisions 2nd July • Scrambled Eggs
SCRAMBLED EGGS - The was not so much 'love around the kitchen table' for Japan's beloved Kewpie (QP) mayonnaise recently. Second-quarter revenues...
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Big Apparel in Trouble: Renown Finally Goes Under
Japan’s major apparel firms are in trouble as Onward Holding (8016 JP)’s decision to slash 50% of its stores and Sanyo Shokai (8011 JP)’s fight...
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