Seiyu, a major supermarket chain, has announced that it will sell all its stores in Kyushu to Izumi, a supermarket chain headquartered in Hiroshima City, and withdraw from Kyushu. It has become clear that Seiyu will withdraw from Hokkaido, and plans to concentrate its management resources on business in Honshu.
Seiyu operates 69 stores, including the Sunny grocery store, in five prefectures in Kyushu, including Fukuoka, and it was announced on the 3rd that it had signed a contract to sell all of these stores to Izumi.
The sale amount is not disclosed.
▽All affected stores are expected to be taken over by Izumi's subsidiary ``YumeMart Kumamoto'' on August 1st,
▽The Sunny store name will remain even after the sale,
and ▽Employees will continue to be employed. .
Seiyu has announced that it will transfer all nine stores in Hokkaido to a subsidiary of major distribution company Aeon, and by withdrawing from Hokkaido and Kyushu, the company will concentrate its management resources on business in Honshu and expand its logistics operations. The aim is to accelerate investment in human resources and other areas.
Seiyu commented, ``From now on, we have decided to concentrate our management resources to provide the best value in Honshu, where we are most familiar with the situation.We hope to respond to ever-changing needs and make shopping more accessible through digitalization.'' doing.