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(Tokyo:80280)
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FamilyMart Co., Ltd.
4-26-10, Higashi-Ikebukuro, Toshima-ku
Tokyo 170-8404, Japan
Tel. +81-3-3989-6600

Type: Public
On the web: http://www.family.co.jp/english
Employees: 6,562

Japanese take the family to FamilyMart, the country's #3 convenience store chain behind market leader Seven-Eleven Japan and LAWSON. About half of the company's 14,000-plus stores are in Japan. FamilyMart also operates shops in China, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and the US. The chain opened its first store in Shanghai, China, in mid-2004. The US is also on the company's expansion list, with the first of some 250 planned US stores having opened in Southern California in 2005 under the Famima name. To further strengthen its retail network, FamilyMart in December 2009 acquired smaller rival am/pm Japan Co. from owner REX Holdings.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending February, 2008:
Sales: $2,621.1M

Officers:
Chairman: Michio Tanabe
President and CEO: Convenience Stores & Truck Stops

Competitors:
Ito-Yokado
LAWSON
Seven-Eleven Japan

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FamilyMart in Tokyo, Japan

FamilyMart (ファミリーマート Famirīmāto?) TYO: 8028 is a convenience store franchise chain first opened in Japan on September 1, 1981. FamilyMart is Japan's third largest convenience store chain, behind 7-Eleven and Lawson, and the largest chain store in South Korea. FamilyMart is owned and overseen by FamilyMart Company, Limited. The main shareholder is Itochu with a stake of 35.55%[1]

All of the usual Japanese convenience store goods such as basic grocery items, magazines, manga, soft drinks, condoms, nikuman, fried chicken, onigiri, and bento are available.

FamilyMart's official motto is "FamilyMart, Where You Are One of the Family."

FamilyMart in Kaesong, North Korea

FamilyMart also has franchise stores in Thailand, South Korea, Taiwan, mainland China (Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Suzhou), and the United States. In addition, South Korean franchisees operate two stores in North Korea for South Korean visitors and workers in the Kaesong Industrial Region and Kŭmgangsan Tourist Region. As of August 31, 2009, there are 15,240 stores worldwide, with fast growth in Asia outside of Japan. There are 7,604 stores in Japan, 4,621 stores in South Korea and 2,376 stores in Taiwan, 558 stores in Thailand, 303 stores in China and 16 stores in the USA.

Beginning in July 2005, FamilyMart began building and opening several stores in Los Angeles, California, the first of 250 planned for the United States by 2009. The North American brand name will be "Famima!!".

On January 30, 2006, FamilyMart began trials of an automatic cashier station at one of its Tokyo locations in cooperation with Itochu and Toshiba. Special tags on items in a shopping basket are remotely and instantly sensed at the register, and the total cost is displayed immediately.

References

  1. ^ Change in Largest Shareholder of FamilyMart Co., Ltd, September 2009

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