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Japanese convenience-store chain FamilyMart will be sold outright to local trading company Itochu, according to reports. The buyer, which currently holds 50 percent of FamilyMart business, made the decision to fully purchase the chain last Wednesday in a…
Central Retail has taken full control of the FamilyMart Thailand business, a precursor to expanding the network in the country. Currently, FamilyMart has just 1000 convenience stores, largely centered in the capital city of Bangkok. That’s a fraction of the…
FamilyMart Taiwan is partnering with the food-delivery platform Foodpanda to launch a delivery service. Starting Wednesday next week, the firm plans to offer delivery services from its 1000 outlets nationwide by June, with initial services commencing out of…
FamilyMart Thailand has opened its first ‘FamilyMart Corner’ stores where beverages, snacks and convenience foods are sold from automatic vending machines. Central Food Retail, which operates FamilyMart Thailand and the Tops supermarket chain, created the…
Familymart Taiwan is aiming to open 220–230 new stores in the territory this year, as the Japanese convenience-store chain franchise, emerges unaffected by the coronavirus turmoil. The firm’s takings in this year’s first financial quarter are anticipated to…
A trial to reduce business hours has resulted in a 59 percent drop in operating profits for FamilyMart Japan.The trial by the traditionally 24-hour convenience-store chain operator was conducted from October to December at around 600 FamilyMart outlets to…
FamilyMart Japan is reducing its operational costs by letting go 800 employees. The redundancies equate to about one in 10 of the convenience-store operator’s total staff count, and will be offered with severance packages for volunteers who opt to leave the…
The world’s largest FamilyMart is to open in Manila. The 400sqm outlet will launch in Bonifacio Global City, Taguig, on the ground floor of the Udenna Towers, operated by Philippine FamilyMart CVS. The store will be designed to appeal to “a youthful and…
Convenience-store operator FamilyMart Taiwan plans nearly 40 new stores in railway stations this year. The Japanese-headquartered company has just opened three new outlets in Taiwanese stations at Badu, Wanhua, and Luodong. Two more are about to open at the…
FamilyMart Japan says almost half of its franchisees want to drop its signature 24-hour trading hours. The firm conducted a recent survey among its around 14,000 franchises in Japan, of which 48.3 percent said they want to operate shorter hours, citing the…
FamilyMart is suing its Chinese partner in a dispute over royalties which could spell the end of the joint venture. With 2500 stores across China, FamilyMart has the second-largest network of foreign players, but the highest market share at around 8.4 per…
Japanese convenience store FamilyMart Holdings is preparing to invest ¥25 billion (US$223 million) on labour-saving technologies. The firm will partner with tech firm Panasonic to introduce self check-out, digital displays and other similar devices which…
QL Resources, the Malaysian operator of Japanese convenience store chain FamilyMart, is going ahead with plans to open 300 stores by March 2022, despite a slump in the economy. The firm opened 30 FamilyMart Malaysia outlets within the last financial year and…
Convenience store chain FamilyMart has partnered with logistics operator Kerry Express to expand its Bangkok delivery service. “Today, the e-commerce market has grown continuously for more than 20 per cent annually, and individual consumers have also had a…
Japanese discount store operator Don Quijote is approaching an agreement to take over 100 per cent of the Uny general merchandise store business, making it the country’s fourth-largest retailer. The firm already controls 40 per cent of the Uny business, and…
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…
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