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Business › FamilyMart, Itochu in final talks to acquire am/pm
Tōkyō :: Japan | 18 days ago
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Convenience store chain operator FamilyMart Co and its top shareholder, major Japanese trading house Itochu Corp, are in the final stages of negotiations over acquiring smaller rival am/pm Japan Co, sources familiar with the matter said Thursday. ...
Tags: machinery orders, am/pm Japan Co, joint venture, Tokyo, core machinery, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
Business › Uniqlo operator logs record sales, operating profit
Tōkyō :: Japan | about 1 month ago
Credibility Fast Retailing Co said Thursday it logged record-high group sales and operating profit for the business year through Aug 31 on the back of booming demand for low-cost hit products at its Uniqlo casual clothing chain amid tough economic conditions. The...
Tags: Japanese, Tokyo, machinery orders, nerve gas, Bloomberg, China
Business › Rengo marks 20th anniversary
Tōkyō :: Japan | about 1 month ago
Credibility The Japanese Trade Union Confederation, also known as Rengo, began its regular convention Thursday in Tokyo, marking the 20th anniversary of its establishment. During the two-day convention, Japan’s largest labor organization will discuss how to improve...
Tags: machinery orders, Bloomberg, Japan, Tokyo, Nintendo, core machinery
Failures most in six years
Tōkyō :: Japan | 4 months ago
Credibility The number of Japanese corporate bankruptcies in the first half of 2009 increased 8.28 percent from a year earlier to a six-year high of 8,169, a private credit research agency said Wednesday. The year-on-year rise in the first half was the fourth in...
Tags: National › Japan, machinery orders, core machinery, regional banks, health ministry
Toyota to stop hosting Japanese Grand Prix
Tōkyō :: Japan | 4 months ago
Credibility Toyota Motor, reeling from its first ever loss, will stop hosting the Formula One Japanese Grand Prix at its Fuji Speedway circuit from 2010, the race track's operator announced on Tuesday. The global economic downturn has made it "extremely difficult"...
Tags: Bank of Japan, machinery orders, Toyota Motor Corp., Bloomberg, Suzuka, Gundam, Fuji Speedway
Japan economy hit by fall in prices
Tōkyō :: Japan | 5 months ago
Credibility Hopes for recovery in the Japanese economy were dented Wednesday as data showed wholesale prices fell at their sharpest in over 22 years, signalling a return to deflation, while machine orders also dived. Core machinery orders -- a key gauge of business...
Tags: Bank of Japan, risk appetite, Bloomberg News, machinery orders, Tokyo Stock Exchange, Nikkei, economic recovery, stock average
Revised figures show Japanese economy shrinking 12pc
Tōkyō :: Japan | 8 months ago
Credibility The figure was better than a first estimate of a 3.3 per cent contraction. But even after the revision, it was the worst quarter since early 1974 in the wake of the first oil shock. The Japanese economy contracted for a third straight quarter as the global...
Tags: Japan, domestic production, economy contraction, gross domestic, machinery orders, Cabinet Office, initially reported
Financial Times: German manufacturing orders plunge
Berlin :: Germany | 8 months ago
Credibility German manufacturing orders dropped 8 percent in January alone, data on Wednesday showed, in the latest sign that Europe’s largest economy will again contract sharply in the first quarter of 2009. The preliminary Economy Ministry figures showed the second...
Tags: machinery orders, Japan
Bankruptcies in Japan on the rise
Tōkyō :: Japan | 10 months ago
Credibility Data released Tuesday by research company Tokyo Shoko shows that 1,362 Japanese firms went out of business last month as the global financial crisis continued its toll on the world's second-largest economy. The total number of failed exchange-listed companies...
Tags: year, financial crisis, recession, yen, machinery orders, Japan
Asahi Shimbun, Japan: Machinery orders fall sharply
Tōkyō :: Japan | about 1 year ago
Credibility Machinery orders for the July-September quarter fell at a record rate, according to Cabinet Office figures released Monday. Private sector machinery orders, a leading indicator of domestic plant investment, fell by 10.4 percent from the previous quarter...
Tags: Asahi Shimbun, minister taro, Taro Aso, Japan, prime minister, income cap, machinery orders, approval rate, cash benefit
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