<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Latest Aeon industry news - from just-food.com</title><link>http://www.just-food.com</link><description>Latest Aeon industry news - from just-food.com</description><copyright>© 2009 All content copyright just-food.com. Published by Aroq Ltd.</copyright><pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:40:44 GMT</pubDate><lastBuildDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:40:44 GMT</lastBuildDate><category>just-food.com - RSS feed</category><generator>just-food.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><ttl>20</ttl><item><title>JAPAN: Aeon confirms FY forecast despite weak H1</title><description>Aeon Co. has posted a net loss for its first six months, as Japan's recession cut into consumer spending on food and clothes.</description><link>http://www.just-food.com/article.aspx?id=108289</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:18:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>JAPAN: Aeon denies plans to expand in Vietnam, India</title><description>Aeon has denied reports that a slump in demand at home has led Japan's second-largest retailer to look to expand in India and Vietnam.</description><link>http://www.just-food.com/article.aspx?id=107786</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:50:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>JAPAN: Aeon Q1 profit tumbles</title><description>Japanese retailer Aeon today (7 July) posted a 62% drop in operating profit as falling consumer spending hit sales.</description><link>http://www.just-food.com/article.aspx?id=107189</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:07:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>JAPAN: Aeon slows China expansion plans</title><description>Japanese retailer Aeon Co. has announced that it will postpone plans to open 100 of its supermarkets in China by 2011.</description><link>http://www.just-food.com/article.aspx?id=106867</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:56:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>JAPAN: Retailer Aeon books annual losses</title><description>Japanese retailer Aeon Co. today (14 April) booked annual losses on the back of slow sales and one-off, restructuring charges.</description><link>http://www.just-food.com/article.aspx?id=106201</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:18:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>JAPAN: Lawson posts robust 2008 figures</title><description>Lawson, the Japanese retailer, has shrugged off the recession with a set of robust annual figures that showed its sales and earnings climbed in the last 12 months.</description><link>http://www.just-food.com/article.aspx?id=106203</link><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:09:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>CHINA: Aeon enters Chinese convenience market</title><description>Aeon has confirmed it is to move its convenience format into the Chinese mainland, opening a chain of its Ministop convenience stores this summer within the Shandong Province city of Qingdao.</description><link>http://www.just-food.com/article.aspx?id=106107</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 13:09:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>JAPAN: Price war intensifies as retailers deepen discounts</title><description>The price war raging between Japanese grocers has intensified, with Ito-Yokado Co and Aeon both announcing fresh discounting initiatives.</description><link>http://www.just-food.com/article.aspx?id=105896</link><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:47:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>