"Kansai Supermarket", which operates in Hyogo and Osaka, merged with "H2O Retailing", the operating company of Hanshin Hanshin Department Store, on the 15th.
It will be the leading supermarket alliance in Kansai in terms of sales, and it will be interesting to see how the integration will be effective.
At the Kansai Super Shareholders' Meeting held in October this year, a business integration plan with "H2O Retailing," which operates Hankyu Hanshin Department Store, was approved by a small margin.
The Tokyo metropolitan area supermarket "OK", which intended to acquire Kansai Super, had filed a provisional disposition seeking an injunction against the integration procedure, but on the 14th, the Supreme Court rejected OK's motion and decided to approve the business integration. , The judicial decision has been finalized.
In response to this, Kansai Super became a subsidiary of H2O on the 15th.
Through the integration, H2O will have three brands of supermarkets, "Izumiya" and "Hankyu Oasis," in addition to "Kansai Super," creating one of the leading supermarket alliances in the Kansai region with sales of 370 billion yen. Did.
H2O will continue to renovate the stores of "Kansai Super" and improve the efficiency of logistics, but the competitive environment will intensify as low-priced supermarkets newly enter Kansai. Attention will be paid to how the integration will be effective.