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Retail Asia16/08/2018

Healthcare is becoming a staple category for Japanese convenience store chains as they seek to counter the encroachment of pharmacies on their traditional product ranges. According reports, while Japanese drugstores are increasingly offering snacks and quick meals, convenience stores are now selling medicines and even setting up health consultation stations in stores. Lawson-branded stores have […]

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Retail Asia09/07/2018

FamilyMart Indonesia has opened its 100th store with plans to continue to expand the network. The Japanese-founded convenience-store chain opened its first store in Indonesia in October 2012 and has so far focused on growth in the capital, Jakarta, with a small presence in areas including Depok, Tangerang, Karawang and Bekasi. “Our target is to […]

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Retail Asia06/04/2018

FamilyMart Taiwan has launched a pilot convenience store concept that incorporates a range of digital technology including robots, VR interfaces, interactive projection screens, smart shelves and blockchain applications. A Fujitsu Robopin communication robot is stationed at the entrance to highlight offers and in-store events, while video content about products is projected on to the doors […]

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Retail Asia05/03/2018

JD.com has signed a deal with Japanese convenience-store chain FamilyMart. This will enable users to order goods through JD.com’s 24-hour O2O service Jing Dong Dao Jia (“Door-to-Door JD”) and have them delivered from FamilyMart’s 212 core locations in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Chengdu within 30 minutes. Early this year JD.com launched 7Fresh, its offline fresh-food […]

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Retail Asia07/12/2017

Japanese convenience store company FamilyMart Uny Holdings may sell its Hong Kong retail interests. Working with a financial adviser, the company is seeking about US$100 million for its three stores, insiders say. In Hong Kong, FamilyMart Uny runs department stores under the Apita, Piago and Uny brand names. They sell stationery, clothing and food ranging […]

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Retail Asia05/12/2017

Japan’s FamilyMart is about to launch a fitness club chain, Fit & Go. Like its convenience stores, the gyms will be open 24 hours a day. Around-the-clock gyms have been growing in popularity in Japan, mainly supported by the age range of FamilyMart’s primary customer demographic, as reported. While equipment may vary, all locations will […]

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Retail Asia21/11/2017

Japan’s FamilyMart is going to great heights for promotion – in fact, as far as space. The Japanese convenience store franchise is joining airline JAL as a sponsor for an artificial “shooting star” project that involves a satellite dropping pellets that will make a display as they burn up on re-entering the atmosphere. It will […]

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Retail Asia06/11/2017

Philippine FamilyMart (PFM) may be taken over by Phoenix Petroleum as part of diversification move. In a disclosure to the stock exchange, Phoenix says it has signed a memorandum of understanding with SIAL CVS Retailers and its Japanese partners for a planned 100 per cent acquisition of PFM, which runs convenience stores under the FamilyMart […]

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Retail Asia20/10/2017

FamilyMart Taiwan has launched an e-wallet known as “My FamiPay”. The application, launched in collaboration with Cathay United Bank (CUB) and Soft Space, integrates debit/prepaid/credit cards and other various stored value cards to facilitate in-store purchases and utility bill payments. Loyalty points can be seamlessly collected and used to redeem or make payments at the […]

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Retail Asia11/10/2017

FamilyMart Philippines convenience-store chain, partly owned by the Ayala and Tantoco groups, is up for auction. With about 70 stores, the Japanese chain has been offered to prospective investors in the past few months. Ayala Land and the Rustan’s group, via their equally owned JV firm Sial CVS Retailers, in 2012 signed a deal with […]

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Retail Asia26/07/2017

FamilyMart UNY Holdings, Japan’s second-largest convenience store chain, is considering partnering with China’s Citic and Thailand’s Charoen Pokphand Group. The companies are looking at opportunities beyond convenience stores, says FamilyMart UNY president Koji Takayanagi. FamilyMart UNY has forecast it will more than double its profit to ¥100 billion (US$901 million) in four years from ¥41.2 […]

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Retail Asia12/05/2017

‘We cannot continue to pour in resources,’ its president says of business in the Southeast Asian market. Japan’s second largest convenience store chain FamilyMart plans to stay focused on domestic market as it reported losses in several Southeast Asian economies including Vietnam. Koji Takayanagi, the chain president, said the firm is reviewing loss-making businesses in […]

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Retail Asia29/03/2017

Vietnam will be the fastest-growing convenience market in Asia by 2021, predicts international grocery research organisation IGD. According to the researcher, Asia’s grocery market will be the largest in the world with predicted 6.3 per cent of compound annual growth rate, up to US$4.8 trillion by 2021. Of that, the convenience store sector will see […]

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Retail Asia06/12/2016

Convenience store chain FamilyMart Malaysia is aiming to open up to 1000 stores by 2020. Out of Japan, the group is using a franchise business model in its newest market in partnership with agro-food company QL Resources, with which it has signed a 20-year agreement. As master franchisee, QL plans to have four stores open […]

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Retail Asia07/10/2016

Central FamilyMart plans to double the number of its convenience stores in Thailand from 1116 to more than 2000 within five years. President Chiranun Poopat says the company will continuously expand the number of FamilyMarts to cater to a growing market and increase access to consumers in specific locations. The expansion will be achieved by […]

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Retail Asia11/06/2016

Convenience store owner Lawson Japan is seeking to buy chains in the US with the aim of boosting its number of overseas outlets by about a quarter within a year. “In the US, where the market is mature, mergers and acquisitions are a simple and straightforward way for us to expand, which would also allow […]

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Retail Asia19/04/2016

QL Resources, which produces chicken eggs and seafood surimi, is set to launch a MalaysiaFamilyMart network. The company says it plans to open 300 outlets within five years, with the first to be up and running by the end of this year. That will trigger a battle with fellow Japanese convenience store chain 7-Eleven and […]

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Retail Asia03/03/2016

Convenience store and grocery retailer Hero Supermarket is to exit the troubled Starmart Indonesia business. Hero, a subsidiary of Hong Kong-headquartered Dairy Farm International, has announced the sale of 80 stores to Fajar Mitra Indah, a subsidiary of Wings Group, an Indonesian food conglomerate which owns the FamilyMart franchise in the country. The networks […]

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Retail Asia02/03/2016

Berli Jucker Plc (BJC), has taken over the Japanese chain of 42 FamilyMarts and renamed it as B’mart. The Vietnamese retail market recently witnessed a series of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in which the buyers were businessmen from Thailand. In mid-2014, BJC made a deal on buying Metro Cash & Carry Vietnam at $880 million, the […]

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Retail Asia27/01/2016

Four major convenience store chains in Japan are teaming up with a government-related body to work on expanding their businesses overseas. FamilyMart, Lawson, Ministop and 7-Eleven Japan have formed a council with the Japan External Trade Organization (Jetro) to accelerate their establishment of branches overseas after the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) goes into effect, reports the […]

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