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...Earlier this month, US hedge fund ValueAct called on shareholders in Seven & i to back a tax-free spin-off of the conglomerate’s 7-Eleven convenience store business....
...Arriving weary and hungry from the bullet train in Hiroshima one night last spring, I trod the natural path by heading to a 7-Eleven convenience store for a can of beer, an onigiri rice ball and some fried...
...On Sunday two 7-Eleven stores in the eastern city of Changzhou in Jiangsu province told Chinese media they had removed all Nongfu Spring products from their shelves, with a “special notice” put up saying...
...US-based asset manager Artisan Partners, one of the three shareholders, is among the investors that said Seven & i, which owns the 7-Eleven convenience store brand, had failed to keep pace with recent improvements...
...The Osaka bento shop where the first vending machine will be placed neighbours a 7-Eleven and a Lawson, run by two of the country’s largest convenience store chains....
...’s second Japan plant advances Tokyo ambitions on chip supply (Nikkei Asia) Samsung chair acquitted of stock manipulation and fraud charges (FT) Lawson, KDDI to fuse physical and digital to challenge 7-...
...You can get a quality onigiri, or rice ball, in a 7-Eleven. Conversely, do not be put off by a name that seems like a pun or is possibly misspelled....
...The 7-Eleven convenience store operator struggles with a heavy conglomerate structure. This sprawls across financial services into managing hotels and underground car parks....
...A maestro relojero (master watch repairman), he left the island in 1998 and set up shop next to a 7-Eleven at a strip mall in Miami’s Key Biscayne neighbourhood....
...Convenience stores including 7-Eleven have suspended the sale of some egg-related products. Ingredient prices for food companies are rising across the board. The biggest problem is with mayonnaise....
...This also applies to management, leading to situations like the head of US-based 7-Eleven making about 20 times as much as the boss of Seven & i, its Japanese parent....
...Meanwhile, the convenience chain 7-Eleven — which pumps out 80mn cups of cut-price coffee every year to hungover “tradies”, those on a budget and petrol buyers — boasts how its beans are Fairtrade....
...“You could almost buy [them] in 7-Elevens here in the US,” says Gamberini. “That’s the way to kill a brand. Now, we’re keeping it select, we’re not supplying our soles to everybody . . ....
...[MUSIC PLAYING] Google is backtracking on its controversial plan to replace advertising cookies, and convenience store chain 7-Eleven is under pressure to split itself up....
...The acting chair of the Federal Trade Commission said the $21bn purchase of Speedway petrol stations by the owner of the 7-Eleven convenience store chain may violate competition law....
...Both situations are part of a recent flurry that has also seen activist investors seek the break-up of the Japanese owner of 7-Eleven convenience stores and the sale of US department store Kohl’s....
...I sympathise with Mitoshi Matsumoto, the Osaka franchisee who faces the indignity of Seven & i Holdings, the chain’s Japanese owner, opening another 7-Eleven store in what was his car park as part of their...
...The move to open hyperlocal “dark” stores is an acknowledgment that the company’s strategy of having couriers travel to existing brick-and-mortar stores, such as 7-Eleven, was being outflanked....
...Before buying back the Tesco business, CP was already one of Thailand’s biggest retailers, owning the country’s 7-Eleven convenience stores and the Siam Makro hypermarket chain....
...After Typhoon Jebi, the airport launched a mega engineering project: a 6km section of the island that holds the airport has been raised by around 2.7 meters....
...Franchising has been the market entry tool of choice for other convenience stores like 7-Eleven, which licenses its brand to Seven System Vietnam....
...Eleven owner faces investor calls to split Pressure is building on the owner of Japan’s largest convenience store chain to split the company as investors grow increasingly frustrated with “outdated” governance...
...Shell, already the world’s second-largest retailer by number of sites behind 7-Eleven, is expanding its network by more than 20 per cent to 55,000 globally in the next few years....
...The batteries are reused to store renewable energy at 7-Eleven convenience stores and to power railroad crossings and delivery robots in factories....
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