Who owns Bangkok's 7-Eleven, Lotus's and Tops Daily convenience stores

The 7-Eleven on your Bangkok corner is not run by a Japanese or American company. It is operated by a Thai company in the CP Group, and the same group controls Lotus's Go Fresh, the format CP ALL itself names as its nearest rival by store count.

This guide sets out who owns each chain you will see in Bangkok, what the store numbers are, and what the companies themselves say about why 7-Eleven is everywhere. The figures come from the companies' own annual reports (Form 56-1 One Report), their own websites and filings, and the Stock Exchange of Thailand.

One licence behind 15,945 stores

CP ALL Public Company Limited holds the 7-Eleven licence for Thailand. Its 2025 One Report says the company was "established in 1988 as a company within the Charoen Pokphand Group" and runs the chain under an Area License Agreement with 7-Eleven, Inc., the US company formerly called The Southland Corporation.

That agreement was signed on 7 November 1988. It gives CP ALL exclusive rights to the 7-Eleven system and trademarks in Thailand, and in return CP ALL pays "monthly License Royalty fees, calculated as a percentage of total monthly sales". The report does not publish the percentage.

The licence comes with conditions that shape the business. CP ALL must keep a minimum number of stores open, or 7-Eleven, Inc. may run stores itself or license someone else. It cannot transfer the rights or issue new shares without 7-Eleven, Inc.'s written consent. The report adds that the 15,945 stores open at the end of 2025 are above the required minimum.

The first store opened in 1989. CP ALL's history table records that "C.P. Seven Eleven Co., Ltd." opened the first 7-Eleven "at Soi Patpong, Bangkok". The same report, in a passage about a sushi bar, calls the Prasarnmit branch "the first 7-Eleven store in Thailand", so the company's own document is not consistent on which branch came first.

The history table then marks the 1,000th store in 1998, the 2,000th in 2002, the 12,000th in 2020, the 13,000th in 2021, the 14,000th in 2023 and the 15,000th in 2024. CP ALL listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand in 2003.

Ownership of CP ALL itself is spread out, but one group dominates. The report's shareholder table shows the Charoen Pokphand Group with a combined 35.92% of CP ALL, the largest part held by C.P. Merchandising Co., Ltd. at 30.42%. Thai NVDR holds 9.05%, the Social Security Office 3.43% and the Vayupak1 Fund 3.11%.

The Stock Exchange of Thailand's year-end snapshot gives the scale in money. CP ALL reported revenue of Baht 1,022,143 million for 2025 and a net profit of Baht 28,206 million, and the exchange describes it as "managing over 15,000 7-Eleven stores".

Why 7-Eleven is on every corner

CP ALL's own reports describe steady expansion. The company opened 700 stores in Thailand in 2025, which it says met its target of 700 new stores per year, and 90% of them were standalone stores "with ample parking space".

Not every branch is run by CP ALL itself. Its stores come in three types, and the table below shows how many of each existed at the end of 2023, 2024 and 2025.

The Store Business Partner scheme is the franchise-like part. CP ALL says it "offers opportunities for any person including employees, to operate their own 7-Eleven stores", and says it supports them with management know-how, product assortment and financial systems. At the end of 2025 these partner stores made up 43% of the total and corporate stores 51%.

The sub-area licences explain why some provincial 7-Elevens are not run by CP ALL directly. The report says four such agreements currently operate, in Phuket, Yala, Chiang Mai and Ubon Ratchathani, and these account for the remaining 6% of stores.

Fuel stations are the other lever. CP ALL began cooperating with PTT Public Company Limited in 2002 to open stores in PTT petrol stations, and by 2025 there were 2,239 7-Elevens in petrol stations against 13,706 standalone branches, according to a market table in the same report.

The stores also do more than sell snacks. CP ALL set up Counter Service Co., Ltd. in 1994 as an agent for collecting payments for goods and services, and it owns CPRAM, a producer and distributor of ready-to-eat meals and bakery products. The report also counts more than 4,300 vending machines alongside the stores.

CP ALL describes its reach as "covering all districts across Thailand", with branches in residential areas, offices, educational institutions, tourist attractions and petrol stations.

The CP Group's second chain

Lotus's Go Fresh, the small Lotus's-branded store, is in the same corporate group as 7-Eleven. It belongs to CP Axtra Public Company Limited, and CP Axtra's 2025 One Report shows who controls it.

At its last book closing on 21 August 2025, CP All held 34.92% of CP Axtra and CP ALL's subsidiary Siam Makro Holding (Thailand) held 25.01%, a combined 59.93%. Charoen Pokphand Holding held 15.96% and C.P. Merchandising 8.85%. CP Axtra states that CP Group companies together hold 84.74% of its shares.

CP Axtra used to be called Siam Makro. CP ALL's history table records that in June 2023 Siam Makro "changed its company name to CP Axtra Public Company Limited" and its stock ticker from MAKRO to CPAXT. CP ALL had become its major shareholder in 2013.

Lotus's came into the group from the Tesco Group. CP Axtra's report says its subsidiary acquired Lotus's Thailand and Lotus's Malaysia "from the Tesco Group in December 2020", and CP Axtra completed its own acquisition of Lotus's on 25 October 2021. On 1 October 2024 CP Axtra and Ek-Chai Distribution System, the company that ran Lotus's in Thailand, amalgamated into one company.

The brand has Bangkok roots. Ek-Chai opened its first Lotus's hypermarket at Seacon Square in Bangkok in 1994 and its first mini-supermarket, called Express Ramindra, in Bangkok in 2001. In February 2021 the large stores were rebranded "Lotus's" and the first "Go Fresh" mini supermarket opened.

At 31 December 2025, Lotus's in Thailand had 2,508 stores: 228 hypermarkets, 178 supermarkets and 2,102 Lotus's Go Fresh stores. CP Axtra describes Lotus's Go Fresh as "small retail store with a sales area ranging from 150 to 450 square meters" focused on fresh food and daily top-up shopping, and plans 100 new ones a year.

The two companies describe the same store differently. CP ALL's market table counts Lotus's Go Fresh as a convenience store, with a 9% share by number, while CP Axtra calls it a mini-supermarket.

If you want to understand the payment side of these shops before you arrive, the guide to cash, cards and ATM fees covers what the city's shops generally accept.

Where FamilyMart went

FamilyMart does not trade in Thailand under that name any more, according to its last Thai owner. Central Retail Corporation's 2023 One Report states: "All Family Mart stores have been converted into Tops Daily in 2023."

The same report gives the chain's history in Bangkok. "The first FamilyMart store in Bangkok opened in 1993," it says, and Central Retail "acquired FamilyMart in Thailand through a joint venture in 2012" with FamilyMart Co., Ltd. and other parties. In May 2020 Central Retail bought the remaining 49% of Central FamilyMart Co., Ltd., taking it to 100%.

Central Retail also explains where the chain was concentrated. The FamilyMart banner, it says, was "concentrated in Bangkok and its perimeter as well as touristic areas such as Pattaya and Samui". Older Bangkok maps, reviews and directions may therefore still mention FamilyMart branches at addresses that Central Retail now runs as Tops Daily.

The numbers show a smaller network after the change. Central Retail's 2023 report counts 931 mini supermarkets in 2021, 545 in 2022 and 515 in 2023. Its 2025 report restates 2023 as 522 and reports 529 in 2024 and 552 at the end of 2025, after opening 40 Tops Daily stores during 2025.

The paperwork has not fully caught up. The 2023 report's financial notes list "Central Food Minimarket Co., Ltd (Formerly Central FamilyMart Co., Ltd.)", yet the 2025 report's subsidiary table still lists "Central FamilyMart Co., Ltd." as "Operating Convenience Store under FamilyMart Thailand". Neither report says any FamilyMart-branded store reopened.

Central Retail describes Tops Daily as "a mini supermarket offering high-quality, affordable, and diverse products", and its brand page says the stores offer "a counter service for bill payments that accepts both cash and credit card". Central Retail is part of the Central Group, which its 2025 report says supports the company "through HCDS, its major shareholder".

The other chains, decoded

Beyond the CP Group and Central, two other names appear on Bangkok shopfronts. The decoder below sets out each chain, the owner named in an official source and the size the owner reports. None of the English-language reports read for this guide gives the brand names in Thai script.

Big C Mini belongs to Berli Jucker Public Company Limited (BJC). BJC's 2025 One Report says: "As of December 31, 2025, Big C Mini had a total of 1,490 branches located throughout Thailand, and 20 Big C Mini in Cambodia." BJC names TCC Holding Co., Ltd. as its major shareholder, with 75%.

BJC's other formats are larger stores. The same report counts 140 Big C Supercenter branches in Thailand, 13 Big C Extra, 36 Big C Market and 17 Big C Foodplace branches. CP ALL's report, citing Euromonitor, puts Mini Big C at about 3% of the "food and drink destination" convenience market, against about 78.8% for CP ALL and 12% for Lotus's Go Fresh.

Lawson 108 is the smallest-documented of the group. Lawson, Inc. of Japan says on its overseas-store page: "We are converting 108 shop to Lawson 108 as well as opening new stores." It gives no Thai store count.

One documented Thai shareholder is a listed Thai company. A 2018 disclosure by Saha Pathanapibul Public Company Limited to the Stock Exchange of Thailand records that it bought new shares in SAHA Lawson Co., Ltd., raising its holding from 20.00% to 21.34%, after Thai President Foods declined its subscription rights. That filing is from 2018 and the current shareholding was not found in an official source.

CJ More appears in official sources only as a line in CP ALL's market-share table, at 8% of convenience stores by number. Its owner was not verified for this guide.

Choosing between them

For a visitor the practical question is less who owns a shop than what it will do for you. The comparison below uses only what each owner publishes about its format.

CP ALL's reports refer to stores operating around the clock in describing its distribution system, but individual branch hours are not published. Check the door before relying on any single branch late at night.

A simple decision rule works for most first days in the city. Use the closest 7-Eleven for water or a snack, look for a Lotus's Go Fresh or Tops Daily if you want fresh food or more groceries, and save the larger Big C or Lotus's stores for a proper shop. The guide to your first 24 hours fits these errands into an arrival day.

Myths the annual reports correct

The most common misunderstanding is that 7-Eleven in Thailand is a foreign-run chain. The brand is licensed from the American company 7-Eleven, Inc., but CP ALL, a Thai company in the CP Group, owns and runs the business and pays royalties for the name and system.

A second myth is that 7-Eleven and Lotus's are competing groups. Lotus's belonged to the Tesco Group until December 2020, but it now sits inside CP Axtra, which the CP ALL group controls with 59.93% of the shares.

A third is that FamilyMart is simply a smaller rival you will find on some corners. Central Retail says every FamilyMart store was converted to Tops Daily in 2023, so a FamilyMart in an old guidebook is a Tops Daily today, or has closed.

The last is that someone publishes how many of these stores are in Bangkok. No chain does. CP ALL reports national totals and says its stores reach every district; CP Axtra, Central Retail and BJC also report national or format totals only.

Beer and other alcohol are a separate question from which chain you choose; the guide to alcohol sale hours and dry days covers when a cashier may refuse the sale.

What this guide does not cover

No Bangkok-only store count could be verified for any chain, because none of the annual reports read splits its totals by province, and no official city register of convenience-store branches was found. The totals here are national.

The royalty rate CP ALL pays 7-Eleven, Inc. is described in its report only as a percentage of monthly sales; the figure is not disclosed. The current shareholding in SAHA Lawson and the number of Lawson 108 stores in Thailand could not be confirmed from an official source; the latest official document found is the 2018 disclosure.

The owner of CJ More was not verified, so it is named here only as CP ALL's report names it. Prices are not covered: none of the chains publishes shelf prices in its filings, and branch opening hours are not published centrally. Thai-script brand names are not given because the English-language reports used here do not print them, and CP ALL's Thai-language report could not be opened.