CL totally sneezed all over fj.life.in-japan with a withering cloud of snot:

>The 2-Belo wrote:
>> CL totally sneezed all over fj.life.in-japan with a withering cloud of snot:
>> 
>>> daffy wrote:
>>>
>>>> I taught ESL in Japan from 1997 to 2000, and spent my first year
>>>> working for AEON. I was stunned to hear of Nova's bankruptcy
>>>> yesterday, because they were a monster during the years I was in
>>>> Japan. I was wondering if anyone here could tell me how AEON has been
>>>> doing, and if there's been any talk about how Nova's implosion might
>>>> affect competitors like AEON?
>>> Asking once would have been enough ...
>>>
>>> But, since you did ask, the chances of AEON going under are somewhere 
>>> between slim and none.  Unlike NOVA which was just a one-trick pony of 
>>> an Engrish factory, AEON is a part of AEON Group which is something like 
>>> equal in size to the Japanese government in employees, income, and 
>>> number of buildings owned.  You may recognize various AEON Group names 
>>> like Jusco, Carrefour, Mini Stop, Max Valu, or Kasumi from your time 
>>> spent here.  AEON Engrish Skule is a tiny little part of all that.  And 
>>> AEON management has this funny little habit of letting small things that 
>>> don't make money or don't make a lot of money just keep chugging along 
>>> if it creates more goodwill for the parent company than the loss hurts 
>>> its bottom line.
>> 
>> Hmm, I thought they were completely different entities? They read as such in
>> Japanese (イーオン versus イオン). I don't think the English school is a member
>> of the Aeon Group.
>
>You might be correct.  I didn't read the following carefully and thought
>it meant that they were being monitored instead of doing the monitoring:
>
>関連グループ会社の経営管理及び業務管理
>
>And their corporate profile doesn't show the parent company as related.
>
>http://www.aeonet.co.jp/siteview/?href=/profile/company.html#04
>
>Interesting (or not) that they're an Okayama company.  Doesn't anyone
>from Kanto Engrish at a national level?
>
>... and only 26 full-time employees ....

Yes, and the other one is exclusively in the retail and service sector.

http://www.aeon.info/company/group/

I'm sure many, many other people get confused by this. I wonder how many people
call Jusco every day asking for English lesson rates.


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