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...The Southland Ice Company later became 7-Eleven and started to open around the clock in 1963. It was rescued in 1991 by its Japanese licensee with the retail chain Ito-Yokado, and here we are....
...In 1991, Seven &i acquired a majority stake in Southland Corp, the 7-Eleven owners in the US....
...But a more significant reason seems to have been that an industry run on subscriptions and advertising does not have the same appetite for creative risk as the artists who pitch to it....
...This has included converting formerly cropping, beef and sheep type properties to dairy most notably in Canterbury and Southland....
...The supermarkets argued that the cuts were necessary to stave off competition from Wal-Mart, the strongly anti-union retailer that is trying to expand into the lucrative Southland market....
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