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.


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