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Pan-Asia retailer Dairy Farm International Holdings reports “modest” sales growth for the six months ended June 30. Underlying profit was slightly ahead as higher contributions from food, home furnishings, restaurants and China hypermarket Yonghui offset a…
Dairy Farm International’s Indonesia operation continues to struggle in food – but Ikea trades above expectations. The Hong Kong-listed company holds a controlling 83.9 per cent share in PT Hero Supermarket Tbk, which operates Giant hypermarkets and grocery…
Weak performances in Singapore and Indonesia eroded underlying profits in multinational retailer Dairy Farm Group’s food division last year. Last week, Dairy Farm reported a 5 per cent overall increase in sales on a constant currency basis, but a 14 per cent…
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…
Indonesian retailer Hero Supermarket on Wednesday said it will sell its poorly performing Starmart convenience store business to local food conglomerate Wings Group. Hero is selling about 80 Starmart outlets to Fajar Mitra Indah, a unit of Wings Group and the…
Dairy Farm International says it has now closed 74 stores in Indonesia – and more will follow before the year ends. Dairy Farm is the majority owner of the PT Hero retail network which includes supermarkets, Guardian pharmacies and Starmart convenience…
Retail company PT Hero Supermarket (Hero) will spend up to Rp 640 billion (US$48 million) this year for business expansion with retail plans to open stores in several cities across the country. The move will be made to restore the company’s disappointing…
Dairy Farm Indonesia is reviewing the future of its Starmart convenience store chain after closing nearly a third of its stores in the latest half year. The chain has been hit hard by the Indonesian government’s moves to limit the sale of alcohol, banning…
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