Japan's FamilyMart seeks to end pact with Chinese partner over royalty fee spat

Japan's FamilyMart seeks to end pact with Chinese partner over royalty fee spat

A FamilyMart store in Shanghai. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg

FamilyMart, the most successful Japanese convenience-store chain in China, is embroiled in a royalty payments spat between its joint-venture parents that threatens to destroy the partnership.