Lin Jianhong, CEO of FamilyMart, resigned, and the relevant responsibilities were temporarily carried out by the chairman

On June 30, it was reported that Lin Jianhong, the CEO of the Chinese mainland family, would leave his post this week, today or his last working day. It is speculated that Lin Jianhong's departure may be related to the increasingly fierce competition in the domestic convenience store market.

In this regard, the Beijing Business Daily reporter asked the relevant person in charge of the whole family to verify this matter, and the whole family said that the company understood and respected the decision made by CEO Lin based on personal reasons. The successor of the CEO, the company is currently under careful consideration, the responsibilities related to the CEO are temporarily carried out by the chairman of the board; the contract matters with Japan's family that the outside world is concerned about, based on the principle of confidentiality, it is inconvenient to explain, but at present, the operation and operation of FamilyMart are normal.

According to the data, Lin Jianhong joined The Family in November 2015 as the CEO of the company, responsible for Chinese mainland market. Lin Jianhong's most recent public appearance was in February this year, in a New Year's eve video organized by the China Chain Store & Franchise Association.

In fact, The family's previous number of stores in Chinese mainland has always been the highest in the Japanese, but the recent slowdown in development has also been surpassed by Rosen for the first time. According to the list of China's top 100 convenience stores in 2021 released by the China Chain Store and Franchise Association, Chinese mainland FamilyMart ranked sixth with 2967 stores. Lawson and 711, which are also Japanese convenience stores, ranked 5th and 7th with 3256 stores and 2387 stores, respectively.

In terms of new stores, compared with last year, FamilyMart only added 111 stores, while Lawson and 711 added 549 and 240 stores respectively. In addition, China's local convenience store brands are gradually narrowing the gap with the three major Japanese convenience stores. Among them, the number of convenience bees and seefu stores increased by 415 and 302 respectively in the past year.