Investments
Current Portfolio
Qu'il Fait Bon Holdings
- Established: 1986/1
- Acquired: 2024/1
- The Company name “Qu’il Fait Bon” comes from the French meaning ‘’What a bright day!” and is a renowned fruit tart manufacturer providing a wide variety of fruit tarts made with the best quality seasonal fruits as the key ingredient.
- Qu’il Fait Bon operates 11 stores nationwide across Tokyo, Kanagawa, Shizuoka, Kyoto, Osaka, Miyagi and Fukuoka prefectures.
- Since its establishment, the Company has committed to a customer first approach and has dedicated itself to the designing, manufacturing, and distribution of high quality confectionery, which has been widely acclaimed by a range of customers.
BE FORWARD CO., LTD.
- Established: 2004/3
- Acquired: 2024/1
- Exports and distributes various products, mainly focusing on used cars, to more than 200 countries and regions around the world.
- The Company's e-commerce site "beforward.jp" is widely recognized in emerging markets, especially in Africa, where it has established itself as one of Japan's top cross-border e-commerce sites with strong brand recognition.
- Provides “Japanese standard” high quality services to 3 million customers worldwide through its agent offices and logistics network.
Hiiragi Holdings
- Established: 2002/10
- Acquired: 2023/12
- Operates a wide variety of food-related businesses, including franchise businesses such as Baskin Robbins and Kuze Fuku Shoten, as well as proprietary businesses such as Chateau Bunga, Mannekenpis and Bibin Tei
- Operates approximately 140 stores nationwide (as of December 2023)
- Aiming to provide healthy and happy lifestyles through food, while realizing customer satisfaction and employee happiness by leveraging its outstanding store operation capabilities.
Kensetsu-Park Co., Ltd.
- Established: 2002/6
- Acquired: 2023/8
- Operates rental business for scaffolding, temporary construction materials, security-related equipment, event supplies, construction and industrial machinery, etc.
- Manages ten locations throughout the Greater Tokyo region, mainly centering around Tokyo
- Product range capable of meeting the various rental needs of customers, robust inventory volume and operational capability that can respond quickly and with flexibility
Hanawa Shakai Fukushi Inc.
- Established: 2011/8
- Acquired: 2022/9
- Operates private nursing homes, day-care centers and serviced residences for the elderly
- Manages approximately 20 facilities mainly in Saitama Prefecture (as of September 2022)
- Provides nursing care services that meet the needs of residents with its outstanding expertise in facility operation, skilled nursing care staff, and high quality in-house meals
Task-Force Co., Ltd.
- Established: 1989/3
- Acquired: 2022/3
- Operates childcare facilities under the brand names "Popolar", "Ambitious" and "Propeller" with a focus on childcare facilities in urban areas and corporate childcare centres
- Currently manages approximately 120 childcare facilities across Japan (as of March 2022)
- Provides high quality childcare services through thorough training of staff and maintains a flexible approach to childcare contributing to the diversified needs of its customers evolving over time
SBIC Corporation, Inc.
- Established: 2006/6
- Acquired: 2021/8
- Nationwide delivery-only ghost restaurant chain managing various food and beverage brands including "Kasaneya," a restaurant specializing in home delivery of pork cutlets, ramen etc.
- Achieving rapid growth since inception as the leading player in the industry and currently operates approximately 170 stores across Japan (as of August 2021)
- Highly regarded by consumers on the back of its high quality product development capabilities and its proprietary delivery system
HOKUTO Co., Ltd.
- Established: 1972/9
- Acquired: 2021/2
- Full-turnkey supplier providing top quality production lines and engineering mainly focusing on the automotive industry
- The Company designs a "virtual" factory utilizing a 3-D automated designing system and robot simulation technology, which is capable of achieving cost reduction and shortened delivery time to its clients
- Global one-stop supplier supplying technologically competitive body assembly production lines to auto manufacturers worldwide
Rise Consulting Group, Inc.
- Established: 2010/12
- Acquired: 2020/12
- A consulting firm providing unique solutions through its four consulting approaches, "Hands-on Style", "Scopeless", "More than Reports" and "Professional"
- The Company provides services to blue-chip Japanese companies and employs approximately 100 consultants (as of December 2020)
- Provides solutions to a wide range of themes including NewTech, digital, Fintech, new business cultivation, overseas expansion, M&A, operational reforms and PMO
Worldplus Inc.
- Established: 2017/11
- Acquired: 2020/8
- Operator of 24/7 fitness clubs specializing in exercise machines and branded World+
- Manages 125 locations across Japan with over 50,000 members (as of July 2020)
- Rapidly grown business through a franchise that provides members with an attractive and reasonably priced fitness environment with an extensive selection of exercise machines, as well as facilities and amenities
LiPLUS Holdings Inc.
- Established: 2013/2
- Acquired: 2020/6
- Assist operates a web-based platform capable of resolving consumers' daily house troubles
- Manages a strong network of quality service vendors and operates across Japan
- The services cover a variety of categories such as plumbing, electrics, locksmithing, lawn mowing and house cleaning
Earth Technology Co., Ltd.
- Established: 2013/1
- Acquired: 2020/4
- Driven by its corporate slogan, "English × IT Drives Business Growth", Earth Technology is renowned for providing high quality bilingual IT services in Japanese and English.
- Company maintains one of the largest labour forces of bilingual engineers in the IT industry in Japan, with approximately 300 engineers as of December 2019
- Designated as a "Consulting Partner" by Salesforce.com Inc. in September 2019 and has started providing new cloud solutions to its clients
Lcode Ltd.
- Established: 2007/11 (El Dorado Ltd.)
- Acquired: 2017/6
- Engaged in the design, manufacture and sales of beauty contact lenses and is one of the oldest and most established players in the industry
- Manages several brand line-ups including Candy Magic and ReVIA
- Established a branch in Hong Kong in 2015 and is expanding its business to the Asia region including Hong Kong and China
LIFEDRINK COMPANY, INC.
- Established: 1972/3
- Acquired: 2015/5
- Top class shares in manufacturing and selling low-priced tea and mineral water
- The unique strength of low-cost manufacturing capability achieved through integration of the value chain and cost cutting efforts