Japan
Companies
Japan's leading retailer, Seven & I Holdings, has unveiled plans to invest JPY45bn (US$410mn) in increasing the number of its own-brand food supermarkets by 30% to 2011. The target...
2008-08-14Companies
Japanese retailer AEON is reported to be considering opening deep-discount stores in its domestic market, in order to capitalise on high food prices and falling consumer spending...
2008-08-08Companies
Japanese convenience retail giants Lawson Inc and Seven & I Holdings-owned 7-Eleven are to boost their frozen food offerings in line with resurgent consumer interest in the category....
2008-07-31Companies
In a widely reported move, Japanese grocery retail behemoth AEON has increased the price of a number of its most popular TopValu-branded private label products by 10-30%. The decision...
2008-07-29Companies
Japanese convenience retailer Lawson Inc is to invest JPY4bn (US$37.5mn) in turning fresh food convenience rival Ninety-Nine Plus into a majority-owned subsidiary. Lawson will bid...
2008-07-18Companies
Japan's increasingly stagnant mass grocery retail (MGR) sector received a boost in May when all four of the country's leading convenience retailers posted month-on-month sales growth....
2008-06-19Companies
Japanese brewing major Asahi Breweries Ltd has announced plans to almost quadruple its international sales within the next five to 10 years. Asahi's JPY200bn (US$1.85bn) international...
2008-06-18Companies
Japanese confectionery major Morinaga has confirmed that it has indefinitely postponed its planned JPY40bn (US$370mn) in a new factory in Takasaki City. Morinaga confirmed that the...
2008-06-17
