Welcia: Aeon’s Profit Machine
Aeon Co Ltd (8267 JP) is Japan’s largest retail conglomerate by revenues but it struggles to make respectable profits.Now, as with Seven-Eleven at...
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A Potential Asian LBO Screening System
With a relatively full slate of large value takeovers in Developed Asia in the past year - often by parents but also by buyout funds - and the...
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Cocokara/MatsuKiyo - Disappointing But Not Disappointing
On 26 April 2019, just before the start of the Golden Week holiday, Matsumotokiyoshi Holdings Co (3088 JP) (hereafter "MatsuKiyo" or "MK") and...
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Gotta Go With Cocokara
Just before Golden Week last year, specialty drugstore retailers Matsumotokiyoshi Holdings Co (3088 JP) (#4 or #5 in sales) and Cocokara Fine (3098...
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Cocokara and Matsukiyo: Potential Competition for Supermarkets and Convenience Stores
After several months of cross-company negotiations around tie-ups, late in August Cocokara Fine (3098 JP and Matsumotokiyoshi Holdings Co (3088 JP)...
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