Japan: Higher Consumption Tax Slides Smoothly into Place
The consumption tax was raised from 8% to 10% at the beginning of October, five years after the government reluctantly raised it from 5% to 8%.This...
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Seven & I's Sogo Seibu Loses Kansai Branches, Converting More Stores to SCs
Seven & I sent in a team of senior executives to sort out Sogo Seibu three years ago resulting in recommendations that included handing off the...
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🇰🇷 🇯🇵 Smartkarma North Asia • That Was The Week That Was - 18th-24th March 2019
- TW3 NORTH ASIA - This week in North Asia the Smartkarma team Insights were more Bearish than Bullish. Close Outs or Sales were recommended on:...
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Hankyu Invests ¥1.75 Billion in Hankyu Men’s Tokyo
Hankyu Hanshin has outperformed the department store sector in the last few years and continues to invest to lock in its dominance of the Osaka...
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Isetan-Mitsukoshi Closing 3 More Stores and It Won't End There
Isetan-Mitsukoshi sacked its previous CEO for suggesting it should close several of its loss-making stores. Within six months the new leadership...
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