Pan Pacific International Holdings (PPIH), formerly known as Don Quijote, is an international group of companies that aims, through its engagement in the business of distribution. It aims to create stores that are favored by the local community by providing a variety of store formats with different targets, shop floor spaces, product lineups, etc. It also targets customers from different demographics such as homemakers, families, and seniors, with a variety of store formats, such as those with a broad customer reach or general supermarkets featuring products and services that closely match the needs of the local community. It operates with stores in Japan as well as overseas. It is expanding its stores in Hawaii and California in the United States, and in Southeast Asia, including Singapore, Thailand, and Hong Kong. It is also planning new initiatives to expand into the Pacific Rim area. In FY2021, it added 36 stores bringing the store count to 667 stores compared to FY2020 YoY.
It operates Discount stores under the banners like Don Quijote, MEGA Don Quijote, and General Merchandise stores like Apita/Piago, Nagasakiya, DON DON DONKI, MARUKAI stores among others. KaibaLab is a platform for connecting physical stores to the internet through a seamless channel to provide new customer experiences. In FY2021 the Group had a total store count of 667 stores.
Amongst the 667 stores, 583 stores were in Japan including 126 stores of Don Quijote, 139 of MEGA Don Quijote, 52 of MEGA Don Quijote UNY, 139 of Apita/Piago, 2 of Nagasakiya, 25 of Picasso. In the Overseas market, it had 7 stores in Hong Kong, 2 in Thailand, 8 in Singapore,1 in Malaysia, 1 in Taiwan, 28 in Hawaii, and 37 stores in California.
The Group added 280 stores in FY2019 as UNY was converted into a wholly-owned subsidiary in January 2019. UNY Group stores cater primarily to homemakers, families, and senior citizens with product mixes featuring fresh foods, daily consumables, and other essentials. Also, the MEGA Don Quijote UNY Suzuka store, an Apita store was reopened in June 2019, featuring APITA CLOTHING, a directly operated clothing store tenant representing a first-time initiative for this store format. The group also converted UNY’s existing Apita and Piago stores to the Don Quijote UNY and MEGA Don Quijote UNY format. As of June 30, 2019, the conversion of 16 such stores was completed, and the company plans to convert approximately 100 stores by the end of FY2022.
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