Double team

--from Translation Class

Team members: 陈冠鹏 陈苾璇 梁 倩 梁舒婷 苏玉和 苏婉媛

Group project I

FamilyMart全家便利商店

• FamilyMart ( ファミリーマート Famirīmāto?) is a Japanese 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] Its headquarters is on the 17th floor of the Sunshine60 Building in Ikebukuro, Toshima, Tokyo.[2]

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

simple information about FamilyMart

FamilyMart's official motto is

"FamilyMart, Where You Are One of the Family."

What's the form of business about FamilyMart?

C corporation

• FamilyMart also has franchise stores in Thailand, South Korea, Taiwan, China (Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Suzhou), United States and Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh City [3]). In addition, South Korean franchisees operate two stores in North Korea for South Korean visitors and workers in the Kaesong Industrial Region and Mount Kumgang Tourist Region. As of August 31, 2009, there are 21,880 stores worldwide, with fast growth in Asia outside of Japan. There are 9,258 stores in Japan 7,932stores in South Korea 2,851 stores in Taiwan 1011 stores in China 782 stores in Thailand 34 stores in Vietnam and 10 stores in the USA 2 stores in Indonesia.

The development of FamilyMart

• 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 is "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 the customer's shopping basket are remotely and instantly sensed at the register.

• In November 2010, FamilyMart announced it would freeze the number of locations in the United States to 10 stores due to the difficult economic environment. However, operations in certain parts of Asia, especially China, continue to expand.

• In June 2012, Family Mart in South Korea announced that from August that year they would be rebranding under the name CU.[5]

• The highest located convenience store, a FamilyMart, is located in Taipei in the skyscraper Taipei 101. It gives employees a place to shop while working.

• FamilyMart will soon launch in the Philippines under the ownership of Ayala Corporation, Rustan's Group and Itochu.

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