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Daiso categorizes all of its own branded items using the morpheme za (ザ), the Japanese representation of the English word "the", plus a category.For example, za hanabi (ザ・花火) is the category for fireworks, and za purasuchikku (ザ・プラスチック) is the category for plastic items such as plastic buckets and trays.
In 1999, the company opened its first 98cent Plus Store carrying Daiso products, before Daiso had its own stores in US. The company has since expanded to 11 locations in California with over 400 employees in California. These stores sell Japanese food and household items. [3] In 2013, Don Quijote purchased 100 percent of Marukai stock. [4]
Hirotake Yano, who founded the retail chain Daiso known for 100-yen shops, Japan’s equivalent of the dollar store, has died. Yano died Feb. 12 of heart failure, Daiso Industries Co. said in a ...
In 1977 he changed the company name to Daiso Industries and introduced the universal price of ¥100. Yano has stated that having to tag many different products with different prices was becoming too time-consuming for him and his wife, so they just decided to make things simpler by pricing every item at ¥100. [ 1 ]
Daiso, a chain of "100 yen shops," as they are known in Japan, launched in 1977 and has 3,620 locations in Japan and more than 2,200 stores worldwide. Daiso, the Japanese discount store, opens in ...
Japanese discounter Daiso is coming to Elk Grove. The value store giant is moving into the Elk Grove Commons shopping center, home to Trader Joe’s, Ace Hardware, Home Goods and Kohl’s, among ...
The funds gained from the IPO allowed Amazon to grow quickly, making its first three acquisitions on April 27, 1998, less than a year after the company had gone public. [2] After the dot-com bubble burst on March 11, 2000, several companies that Amazon had invested in went bankrupt, with Amazon's stock price itself sinking to record lows. [3]
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