Several of the largest Japanese players, including convenience store chains 7-Eleven and Lawson, saw sales growth slow in 2014, but Japan as a market performed relatively well last year. Overall, system sales growth ...
Double-digit growth is still out there for the right global company, but the road is getting tougher. Average system sales growth decreased from 7.9 percent in 2013 to 4.5 percent in 2014. On a global level, the supe...