Aeon decides to tap into banking business as early as 2007

TOKYO, Japan - Motoya Okada (R), president of major supermarket chain Aeon Co., and Yoshiki Mori, president of Aeon Credit Service Co., give a joint press conference in Tokyo on March 10 on their companies' decision to tap into the banking business as early as the spring of 2007. They said the companies plan to build on their 1,500 stores and 13.7 million Aeon credit card holders in Japan.