She is an external board director at Bridgestone Tire, foodmaker Ajinomoto and department store operator J.
Department store operator Kohl's shares lost 3.7% despite reporting a 45% jump in quarterly earnings.
Sara Lee (SLE) agreed to acquire CoffeeCompany, a Dutch cafe store operator majority owned by KRC Capital.
One Japanese stock that has done well in recent weeks is department-store operator Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings Ltd.
The convenience-store operator says it deployed the application in May 2011 to help field consultants, who work with local franchise owners, share their knowledge and learn best practices from one another.
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.
Kohl's fell 51 cents, or 1.1%, to 46.10, after the department-store operator's earnings outlook for the quarter and full fiscal year were below analyst estimates, offsetting better-than-expected earnings and an increase in its quarterly dividend.
In April fund manager Laura Geritz spent five days in Chile and Argentina touring a hospital, a port operator, a grocery store and a sporting goods retailer.
Costco Wholesale fell 39 cents, or 0.4%, to 88.65, after the wholesale club operator said March same-store sales rose less than expected.
Part of the park would be sold to a food operator to build a medium sized store which would help fund the scheme, the authority said.
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They know that retail merchants will not adopt a new payment method that only works with the subscribers of just one mobile operator and therefore excludes maybe three out of four customers in their store.
It has struggled to find the right payment mechanisms for the App Store, and the iPhone is not available officially on the largest operator, China Mobile, which has 700m of the 1.1bn mobile users in the country and a higher proportion of the best ones.
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