Itochu's FamilyMart Buy Completed; Now Back to Your Regularly Scheduled Program
On February 4th this year, FamilyMart's leading shareholder trading house Itochu Corp (which held 36.9% of FamilyMart's shares outstanding at the...
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Another View on Coupang's 2015 Financials and Possible Future Scenario
Coupang (wholly owned by Forward Ventures) announced its 2015 financial performance yesterday.: For the specific details of Coupang's financials,...
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NHN Entertainment Invests in Ticket Monster - Implications for Softbank and Softbank-Backed Coupang
Surprisingly, NHN Entertainment (which was spun off from Naver in 2013) made USD40m investment in Ticket Monster (one of the three major social...
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Container Shipping Industry Last Few Weeks Factoring in Doomsday
My updates back in December to reiterate the negative in containers (and bulk) and anticipated a weak 2016, to be sure. But in recent weeks it...
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McDonald's Japan: Restructuring Event Coming But Don't Buy This Dip
The story of the ownership unwinding of McDonald's Japan has been a very long time coming. McDonald's Japan was started in 1971 by Japanese...
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