Lawson (store)
Lawson, Inc. (株式会社ローソン, Kabushiki gaisha Rōson) is a convenience store franchise chain in Japan. The store originated in the United States in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, but exists today as a Japanese company based in Shinagawa, Tokyo. The company has its headquarters in East Tower of Gate City Ohsaki in Ōsaki, Shinagawa, Tokyo.[3]
Native name
株式会社ローソン
Kabushiki gaisha Rōson
1939 in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
James "J.J." Lawson
1985 (in America; stores sold to Dairy Mart and most of them are now Circle K stores)
18,052 (July 2021)[1]
- Japan
- China
- Philippines
- Thailand
- Indonesia
- United States
Sadanobu Takemasu (President)
Mitsubishi Corporation (50.12%)
4,470 (non-consolidated, 2017)[2]
Environmental commitment[edit]
As of May 2012, Lawson had solar equipment at 20 of its stores, but the company announced in June 2012 that it would install solar panels at 2,000 of its 10,000 Japanese stores.[26] It was estimated that each store would generate about 11,000 kWh per year. Just under 2,000 kWh of this would go toward climate control and other in-house uses, which would account for about 1% of each store's power consumption. The rest of the electricity would be sold under Japan's feed-in tariff system that came into operation on July 1, 2012. It was estimated that the company's income from the power generated by the 2,000 stores would come to more than 700 million yen a year.[27]
Lawson planned to install solar panels at 1,000 stores in the 2012–2013 financial year, and 1,000 more in the 2013–2014 financial year. It chose solar panels from Solar Frontier, along with the same company's online monitoring system, for the first 1,000 stores.[28]