Company Overview II. Business
III. Strengths and Differentiation IV. Risk Information
V. 2020 VISION
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I. Company Overview
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HOPE Group Corporate Philosophy
Providing new value to citizens through local governments,
and promoting growth of the company and its people
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Company Overview
Company name
Established
Representative
Securities code
Employees
(consolidated)
Business
Head office
HOPE, INC.
Feb. 2005 (fiscal year-end: Jun.)
Takayasu Tokitsu, CEO
6195 (listed on the TSE-Mothers/FSEQ-Board on Jun. 15, 2016)
163 (as of the end of Sep. 2021, including temporary employees)
Services created specifically for local governments
(Advertising Business, Energy Business, Jichitai Works Business)
MG Yakuin Building 1-14-5, Yakuin, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka, Japan
History
Feb. 2005
Founded
May 2020
Jun. 2006
Launched SMART RESOURCE SERVICE
Oct. 2020
Sep. 2013
Launched SMART CREATION SERVICE
Nov. 2020
"Machilet"
Jul. 2014
Launched "Machiiro," an app that connects
Mar. 2021
local governments and local residents
Aug. 2014
Started B-to-G solutions business
Jun. 2016
Listed on TSE-Mothers and FSE Q-Board
Jun. 2021
Dec. 2017
Issued the first edition of"Jichitai Works"
Sep. 2021
Mar. 2018
Registered as an electricity retailer
and launched "GENEWAT"
Dec. 2021
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Started Jichitai Works HAxSH
Established a wholly owned subsidiary HOPE ENERGY, INC.
Developed AI for forecasting market prices of electricity (Energy Business)
Announced participation in the private-sector trainee program of the city of Shijonawate in Osaka prefecture
Launched SMART FR CONSULTING SERVICE Launched the Jichitai Works Free Name Card service
Announced actions for ending negative equity Transferred to a Holding Company Structure
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Hope Inc is a Japan-based company engaged in advertising, energy and media businesses. The Company operates through three business segments. Energy segment offers GENEWAT, an electricity retail service that helps local governments reduce costs. Advertising segment offers two kinds of services. The smart resource (SR) service purchases advertising space in various media such as homepages owned by local governments, public relations papers, salary statements distributed to public employees, and envelopes and sells them to private companies. The smart creation (SC) service, in the form of collaborative issuance with local governments, recruits advertisers to produce information booklets for residents and donates the booklets to local governments. Media segment utilizes the relationships with local governments cultivated in the advertising business to provide business to government (BtoG) marketing services, Jichitai Works, and Jichitai Works HA x SH information distribution platform.
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