Daily Stop ( Chinese: 地利店) was a

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in Hong Kong. It was franchised by

Television Broadcasts Limited Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB; zh, t=電視廣播有限公司) is a television broadcasting company based in Hong Kong. The company operates five free-to-air terrestrial television channels in Hong Kong, with TVB Jade as its main Canton ...

(TVB) and

SCMP Group The ''South China Morning Post'' (''SCMP''), with its Sunday edition, the ''Sunday Morning Post'', is a Hong Kong-based English-language newspaper owned by Alibaba Group. Founded in 1903 by Tse Tsan-tai and Alfred Cunningham, it has remained ...

before it was acquired by Dairy Farm International Holdings and merged to

7-Eleven 7-Eleven, Inc. is an American convenience store chain, headquartered in Irving, Texas. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Seven-Eleven Japan, which in turn is owned by the retail holdings company Seven & I Holdings. The chain was founde ...

. It operated totally 83 outlets in

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and KCR stations,

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and public housing estates. Its main competitors were

and

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History

Daily Stop was established in 1982 to sell TVB-related products. In 1988, it became a

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of TVE Holdings. In 1996, it was acquired by

Robert Kuok Robert Kuok Hock Nien, better known as Robert Kuok, (born 6 October 1923) is a Malaysian business magnate, investor and philanthropist based in Hong Kong since 1973. According to ''Forbes'', his net worth is estimated at $11.8 billion as of Apr ...

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and became a subsidiary of SCMP Group. In 2004, it was sold to Dairy Farm International Holdings and rebranded as "7-Eleven".Dairy Farm (2000 - Present)
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References

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