Aeon Co Ltd 
- JAPAN: Aeon posts H1 loss but confirms full year target (REG)
6th October 2009
Aeon Co has posted a net loss for its first six months, as Japan's recession cut into consumer spending on food and clothes.
Read the full story >> - JAPAN: Seiyu steps up denim price war with $9 jeans (REG)
1st October 2009
Another major Japanese retailer has upped the ante in the country's jeans war, with Seiyu Ltd today (1 October) launching jeans for women and men priced at just JPY850 (US$9.44) a pair. - JAPAN: Aeon and Fast Retailing enter jeans price war (REG)
13th August 2009
A jeans price war got under way with earnest today with Aeon, Japan’s largest retailer, announcing that from tomorrow (Friday) it will be retailing jeans at JPY880 (US$9.2), just over a hundred yen less than the JPY990 price offered by Fast Retailing's Gu stores. - JAPAN: Aeon Q1 profit drops 62% (REG)
8th July 2009 - JAPAN: Gap to test out low price concept (REG)
2nd June 2009 - JAPAN: Aeon to close 100 apparel stores (REG)
30th April 2009 - JAPAN: Retailer Aeon swings to FY loss on Talbots woes (REG)
15th April 2009 - US: Talbots reviews sourcing as Q4 losses spiral (REG)
14th April 2009 - JAPAN: Retailers up discounts through direct imports (REG)
13th March 2009 - JAPAN: Aeon to launch new value kids line (REG)
9th March 2009
Background
Updated: 10th September 2007
Aeon Co Ltd is Japan's second-largest retailer and operates in four business segments including supermarkets, convenience stores and department stores, as well as specialty stores that sell women's apparel, family casual fashion clothing, shoes, and health and beauty products. Aeon has 129 consolidated subsidiaries and 25 associated companies. The company also owns a 55% stake in US apparel retailer Talbots Inc. Under its "glocal" (global+local) strategy, Aeon aims to be the best local retailer in all of its locations by combining world class management systems with merchandise and services that are fine-tuned to local needs and characteristics.
Associated links:
http://www.aeon.info/
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