FamilyMart Offers to Increase Its Stake in Donki: Success or Failure Will Depend on the Premium
Yesterday (16th Aug 2019) FamilyMart announced that they got the approval from their board of directors to increase their ownership in Pan Pacific...
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FamilyMart Bought Some PPIH. Will Buy More PPIH.
Ten months ago, after Itochu Corp (8001 JP) had completed its tender offer to buy an additional 8+% of FamilyMart UNY Hldgs (8028 JP)...
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Walmart Will Relist Japan Unit Soon and at Last Has Potential to Grow – but Only Online
Wal Mart Stores (WMT US) says it will relist its Japanese business soon, putting to rest – at least for now – widespread speculation that it was...
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The Two Weeks That Were In 🇰🇷 🇯🇵 on Smartkarma to June 28.
We are covering about a week and a half of insights in this cut because it was slow, month end, a HK holiday Monday, and many people seem to be on...
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Winners and Losers in Japanese Retailing in the Next 5-10 Years
In a previous Insight, we detailed the reasons why Japanese consumer markets will face the biggest upheaval in the last 50 years, if not ever. As...
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