Itochu will sell in China and around Asia through its 30% owned subsidiary Family Mart convenience store network.
Seibu Saison's customers can buy their groceries from Seiyu, their clothes from Seibu and Parco, their bento lunch-boxes from Family Mart and support the Seibu Lions baseball team at the weekend.
Worryingly, as well as selling subsidiaries that have nothing to do with retailing, Seiyu has also got rid of part of Muji's owner, Ryohin Keikaku, and Family Mart, a convenience-store operator, both good businesses.
Teasley said he last ran into Booker at an education conference a few years ago, when the mayor was trying to raise funds from the educational charities of Bill and Melinda Gates, Eli Broad and the Walton family of Wal-Mart fame.
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One could be Obama-backed restrictions on a popular estate planning strategy that has been used by, among others, the billionaire Walton family that founded Wal-Mart.
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In 1989 he purchased jeweler Borsheims from members of the same family who sold him the furniture mart.
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In 1997 they purchased Chicago's Merchandise Mart from the Kennedy family.
He and his family made billions from appreciation in Wal-Mart stock.
Among other places, Wal-Mart, making America's richest family, the Waltons, perhaps a little richer.
It competes mainly with Dollar Tree and Family Dollar, but also with Target and Wal-Mart.
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From enormous new players like Wal-Mart or Target to independent pharmacies that have been family-owned for generations, companies are working in innovative ways and breaching traditional barriers to provide quality health care.
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In American Magazine, Wal-Mart recognized a perfect vehicle to promote old-fashioned family values.
In 1953, when Wal-Mart was hardly a chainlette, he put the business into a family limited partnership and gave shares (then worth very little) to his kids.
The pension fund, which goes by the initials CalSTRS, "believes Wal-Mart's board is dominated by directors beholden to the Walton family rather than shareholders, " the fund's governing board said in a statement.
The New York Times won four awards including two awards for its reporting on Apple and Wal-Mart overseas, and another for an examination of the hidden wealth of the Chinese premier's family.
Former store managers speak guiltily of stiffing employees out of overtime pay, busting up attempts to unionize, and pushing poor families onto public assistance, and a Missouri family that had built up a grocery store through three generations describes how the store went bust soon after Wal-Mart opened one of its gigantic facilities in their town.
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