Japanese retail group Aeon will open a new outlet on Yanji road in Qingdao on December 18, 2009, and will also open two more new stores in Teda Shopping Center in Tianjin and Jiayu Sun City Plaza in Guangzhou.

Aeon has commenced trial operation of a new Jusco store in Xinzhou village, Shenzhen.

The Guangdong-based department store retailer Jusco, a subsidiary of the Japanese retail giant Aeon, has accelerated its expansion in the Chinese market with a new project in Popark, Guangzhou.

Hong Kong-based health and beauty products retail chain Mannings has made a low-key entry into the Beijing market.

The Japanese retailer Aeon Group has launched a new individual consumer credit model in Beijing, under which consumers can buy products in Aeon's Jusco department store and pay back the money within a certain period of time.

Aeon Co.,Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Aeon in China, has signed a contract with Beijing Hongtai Jiye Real Estate Development Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of COFCO, to open a Jusco supermarket in Chaoyang Grand Joy City, Beijing.