Comprehensive Coverage of Mid-Sized and Smaller Companies Nationwide

「We have opened “management consultation desks” staffed by dedicated consultants in 5 prefectures—Niigata, Miyagi, Ibaraki, Shizuoka and Yamaguchi—and established 15 satellite offices and other locations nationwide as of the end of June 2026.」

「Under the title “M&A Seminars to Innovate Companies: Japan’s Revitalization 2025,” we held seminars at approximately 40 venues nationwide during the consolidated fiscal year under review and received more than 10,000 applications, over 1.5 times the number in the previous corresponding period.」

「Under the title “M&A Seminars for Innovating Companies: Japan Revitalization 2025,” the company plans to hold seminars at 40 venues nationwide. During the first six months of the consolidated fiscal year, it held seminars at 28 venues and received more than 6,000 registrations.」

「During the interim consolidated accounting period, the company held 26 online seminars for business owners unfamiliar with M&A, attracting approximately 1,600 participants. It also held 33 in-person business succession and growth strategy seminars nationwide, attracting approximately 2,400 participants. The company will continue holding seminars sequentially nationwide and aims to attract more than 10,000 participants.」

「During the consolidated fiscal year, the company held various seminars, including the large-scale “Management Revitalization Forum,” and received applications from more than 14,000 participants during the year.」

「In December 2023, the company held the large-scale “Management Revitalization Forum,” which attracted more than 1,800 participants in total when venue attendance and web viewers were combined. It also established business consultation offices in Niigata and Miyagi prefectures. In addition to the company’s Representative Director and President Takumi Miyake giving seminars on the business environment surrounding the prefectures and effective approaches to business succession, resident consultants provided consultations to companies in the prefectures and neighboring areas through the “Niigata Business Consultation Office” and “Miyagi Business Consultation Office.” The company is implementing measures to revitalize local communities in addition to holding seminars.」

「The company plans to continue holding seminars sequentially nationwide and aims to attract more than 10,000 participants.」

「The company had been unable to hold seminars for accepting transfer-company mandates for an extended period because of a corporate scandal, but resumed them nationwide from the third quarter of the consolidated fiscal year. It plans a more extensive rollout in the next consolidated fiscal year.」

「The Group has continued actively disseminating information by moving various seminars online despite the COVID-19 pandemic. From June 2020, after the first state of emergency ended last year, to the present, it has held more than 350 seminars, with registrations exceeding 32,500.」

「The Group has continued actively disseminating information by moving various seminars online despite the COVID-19 pandemic. From June 2020, after the first state of emergency ended last year, to the present, it has held more than 300 seminars in total, with total registrations exceeding 30,000.」

「During the consolidated fiscal year, approximately 15,000 people applied to participate in online seminars co-sponsored with other companies, while approximately 10,000 applied to participate in online seminars hosted solely by the company.」

「In particular, the company jointly hosted the “SDGs Business Succession and M&A Conference” online with Shiga Bank, which was attended by 5,400 companies and 8,200 people from Shiga, Kyoto, Osaka and elsewhere. It also held 22 seminars over a short period using its satellite offices, with approximately 1,400 people participating in person and online.」

「As a result, the group held 70 online seminars, substantially more than its in-person seminars, and received a record cumulative total of more than 7,000 registrations.」

「In June 2020, we held online seminars by industry covering 6 industries over a one-week period, receiving more than 1,300 registration applications in total. Going forward, we will further develop know-how specific to online seminars that differs from that of in-person seminars.」

「Under this concept, the company held seminars primarily in the Tohoku area, at 7 venues; the Kanto area, at 9 venues; the Chugoku, Shikoku and Hyogo areas, at 20 venues; and the Okinawa area, at 9 venues.」

「During the third quarter of the fiscal year under review, the group held seminars at 7 venues in the Tohoku area in November and also held seminars in the Aichi, Osaka and Fukuoka areas.」

「Following the Okinawa area in the first quarter of the fiscal year under review, the group held business-succession seminars for business owners in 20 venues across the Chugoku, Shikoku and Hyogo areas in July during the second quarter, and in 8 venues across the Kanto area from July to September.」

「During the cumulative first quarter of the current consolidated fiscal year, sales planning included holding the “Business Succession Seminar for Business Owners in the Okinawa Area” at 9 venues in Okinawa Prefecture in June 2019. The seminar initiative marked the start of the Group’s regional-area strategy. From the next quarter onward, this regional-area strategy will be rolled out to the Chugoku, Shikoku and Hyogo areas and the Kanto area.」

「From the next fiscal period onward, the company will focus on further improving productivity by having the following 3 divisions within the Sales Headquarters work together organically to efficiently convert the increasing number of transfer transactions accepted into completed transactions.」

「In this way, the company focused on both nationwide seminars and seminars focused on specific regions, further subdividing the regions to capture local needs in greater detail.」

「During the second quarter of the fiscal year under review, the group held numerous seminars targeted by region and theme. These seminars were intended to establish a presence in priority regions, identify needs by focusing on priority themes and convert those needs into accepted engagements. Including the Special Lectures for Business Owners held at 6 venues nationwide during the same period as the regional seminars, the group received a total of 7,000 registrations, primarily from business owners.」

「As part of sales planning for the first quarter of the fiscal year under review, the group held the M&A Seminars for Business Owners sequentially from June 2018 in 6 venues, including Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya, targeting business owners broadly.」

「From the next fiscal period onward, the company will further develop these efforts and enhance the respective approaches of the following 3 divisions to comprehensively cover business owners who need M&A solutions.」

「To actively identify direct-contact transactions under approach ②, the company held “M&A Seminars for Business Owners” sequentially in 7 locations nationwide, including Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya, beginning in October 2017, receiving applications from approximately 1,600 business owners nationwide in total. As before, a business owner who had actually transferred a company through the company’s intermediation shared their experience, deepening participants’ understanding of friendly M&A involving mid-sized and small businesses through the Group’s intermediation.」

「As part of its regional seminars, the company held the “Kyushu, Yamaguchi and Okinawa Business Succession Seminar” at 20 venues across all prefectures in Kyushu, Okinawa Prefecture and Yamaguchi Prefecture in July 2017. Following the establishment of a sales base in Fukuoka in April 2016, the Group conducted intensive seminar activities in the region for 3 consecutive years before and after the opening. Reflecting growing attention to the lack-of-successors issue in the region and the increasing penetration of the Group’s activities there, approximately 3,200 people, the highest number to date, registered this year, and the events were covered by numerous media outlets.」

「As part of sales planning for the first quarter of the fiscal year under review, the group held the M&A Seminars for Business Owners sequentially from June 2017 in 7 regions and 8 venues, including Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya, targeting business owners broadly. Entitled "Next-Generation Business Succession Practised by a Second-Generation Family Business President," the seminars featured business owners who had completed M&A transactions brokered by the group, who shared specific accounts of why they decided to sell, their thoughts during the M&A negotiations and the status of their companies after the M&A.」

「To improve coverage, we will further enhance each of the following 3 core approaches so that we can comprehensively reach business owners who need M&A solutions.」

「Beginning in October 2016, the company held “M&A Seminars for Business Owners” sequentially in 7 locations nationwide, including Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya, receiving applications from approximately 2,300 business owners nationwide in total. As before, a business owner who had actually transferred a company through the company’s intermediation shared their experience, deepening participants’ understanding of friendly M&A involving mid-sized and small businesses through the Group’s intermediation.」

「As regional seminars, following the opening of the Fukuoka office in April 2016, the company held the “Fukuoka Office Opening Commemorative M&A Seminar for Business Owners” in 10 venues across all of Kyushu, Okinawa and Yamaguchi in July 2016. Together with the ceremony held to commemorate the Fukuoka office opening, the events received applications from a total of 2,500 participants. Also, following the opening of the Singapore office in April 2016, the company held the “Singapore Office Opening Commemorative ASEAN M&A Seminar” in 4 venues nationwide in July 2016.」

「Beginning in June 2016, the company held “M&A Seminars for Business Owners” for a broad audience in 7 regions and 8 venues nationwide, including Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya. It also actively held various seminars, including seminars focused on specific industries, such as staffing and building equipment and maintenance, and seminars focused on specific themes, such as growth strategies using M&A.」

「The company will comprehensively cover mid-sized and small businesses that need M&A among Japan’s approximately 4 million mid-sized and small businesses through three dimensions: coverage via information networks, including accounting firms, regional financial institutions and securities companies; direct access through approaches such as the company website, seminars, direct mail and publications; and industry specialization covering sectors such as medical and nursing care, dispensing pharmacies, IT, construction and food.」