Convenience Store

Companies

FamilyMart: The Itochu konbini, five years after going private

How Japan's #2 convenience-store chain became a wholly-owned Itochu Corporation subsidiary in 2020, and what the take-private rewrote about konbini-shosha integration, private label and Asia.

Companies

Lawson: The konbini now owned by Mitsubishi Corp and KDDI

How Japan's #3 convenience-store chain became the most interesting take-private deal of 2024 — and why the 50/50 ownership between a sogo shosha and a telco rewrites what a konbini can be.

Companies

Seven & i Holdings: The convenience-store empire that became 2024’s biggest takeover target

Why Couche-Tard moved on the world's largest konbini operator — and what the 2025 management-buyout fight revealed about Japan's foreign-takeover defences.