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MK Sekiyu opens “Hoken Clinic (R)” on the 3rd floor of Aeon Mall Takanohara store. Aiming for synergies with non-life insurance sales at stands
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MK Oil Co., Ltd. (Head Office: Minami-ku, Kyoto City, President: Yusuke Nakajima, hereinafter referred to as “MK Oil”) and IRIC Corporation (Head Office: Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Representative Director: Ryuji Katsumoto, Stock Code: 7325) , “Insurance Click (R)” Aeon Mall Takanohara store opened on November 30, 2023. This will be MK Oil’s first time operating a walk-in insurance shop.
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MK Oil aims to develop comprehensive, community-based businesses centered around the gas station business, and is putting particular effort into vehicle-related businesses in order to provide customers with a fulfilling car life. We aim to be a company that you can consult with MK Sekiyu for car-related matters such as car care such as car washing and coating, vehicle inspection, repair sheet metal, car insurance, and new and used car sales. Until now, we have handled non-life insurance, such as automobile insurance, but we aim to expand the scope of our handling of insurance products such as life insurance in order to contribute to a better life for our customers.
“Insurance Understanding Sheet” from “Hoken Clinic (R)”
We search for insurance products based on the customer’s wishes, and then provide a comparison table that arranges multiple insurance products that meet the customer’s wishes in the same format. You can arrange them by different insurance companies and products, or even within the same insurance product by changing the coverage amount and special terms. If we don’t meet your expectations, we will change the conditions and submit the item as many times as you like, so you can compare until you are satisfied. Our staff will carefully explain the contents of the “Insurance Understanding Sheet,” and you can take it home and share it with your family. “It’s too easy!” “It’s too easy to understand!” This is a tool that supports insurance selection. [Image 2
(Image: Insurance complete information sheet (provided by IRIC Corporation)) Aeon Mall Takanohara store is conveniently accessible by train or car The AEON Mall Takanohara store, where the store is located, has a parking lot and is conveniently accessible by car, or by train as it is right next to Kintetsu Takanohara Station. There is also a children’s space inside the store, so you can feel safe bringing your children with you.
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[Store information] ■Store name “Hoken Clinic (R)” Aeon Mall Takanohara store ■Recruiting agent MK Oil Co., Ltd. ■Opening date Thursday, November 30, 2023 ■Location 1-1 Sagaradai, Kizugawa City, Kyoto Prefecture -1 Aeon Mall Takanohara 3rd floor■Business hours 10:00-21:00■Closed days None (depends on the facility)■Supported courses Visit us■URL https://www.hoken-clinic.com/detail/531/ [Image 4
[About “Hoken Clinic (R)”] This is the first* insurance shop in Japan to open in 1999. Using our proprietary “Insurance IQ System (R)”, we will help you choose insurance that is “too easy” and “too easy to understand.” We also focus on after-sales services to help you live your life with peace of mind in the age of 100-year lifespans, such as follow-up when you need insurance and reviewing coverage according to life events. There are no persistent solicitations. [Company Profile] ■MK Oil Co., Ltd. Representative: Representative Director and President Yusuke Nakajima Year of establishment: 1957 (Showa 32) Head office location: 63-1 Nishikujo Higashijima-cho, Minami-ku, Kyoto Number of employees: 210 (including part-time workers) Annual sales: 9.2 billion yen (2022) Business details: Gas stations, car maintenance, car sales, non-life insurance, etc. Number of offices: 15 service stations (14 in Kyoto Prefecture, 1 in Hyogo Prefecture) ◆Website–https: // information–https://mkoil-recruit.jp/-/top/index.html■IRIC
Corporation (https://www.irrc. co.jp/) (Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth Market: Securities code 7325) Head office location: 4th floor, Hongo Center Building, 2-27-20 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo Established: July 1995 Representative: Masaru, President and Representative Director Ryuji Hon Capital Money: 1,354,780,000 yen Business details: Insurance sales business that sells insurance to individuals and corporations Solution business that provides insurance solutions to insurance agencies and other insurance sales companies System development System business service sites that provide services such as: Insurtech Solutions https://hs.irrc.co.jp/ Japan’s first* insurance shop “Hoken Clinic (R)” https://www.hoken-clinic.com/ Smart OCR(R) (Atypical AI-OCR) https://www.smartocr.jp/* “Japan’s first walk-in insurance shop chain**” ** 11 or more stores or annual sales of 1 billion yen or more is defined as a chain store according to Tokyo Shoko Research (June 2018)
MK Oil, the origin of the MK Group
MK Oil began in 1957 as Nagai Oil Co., Ltd. (later changed its name to MK Oil), which was founded by the late Sadao Aoki, the founder of the MK Group, who took over Nagai Shoten, a long-established Kyoto stand. In 1960, three years after the establishment of Nagai Oil, Minami Taxi (later merged with Katsura Taxi and changed its name to MK
Corporation) was established. The origins of MK Group’s founding were gas stations, and over the next 60 years, MK Group expanded its business with both taxi and gas station businesses. The founder sympathized with the spirit of Mr. Sazo Idemitsu of Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd., and MK Oil has operated under the banner of Idemitsu Oil. In 2001, MK Oil opened 33 stations in Kyoto and Shiga prefectures, and since then, they have consolidated their stands and used
scrap-and-build methods to increase their size and make them self-service, and currently have 14 stations in Kyoto and Hyogo. One location in the prefecture. In addition to the 11 service stations with Idemitsu signboards, we operate 4 Best Value Stations under our own brand. In order to rejuvenate the management team with the promotion of becoming a holding company in 2023, former president Nobuaki Aoki (Representative Director and President of MK Holdings Co., Ltd.) will retire, and Yusuke Nakajima will be appointed as Representative Director and President. Comments from President Yusuke Nakajima We would like to express our gratitude to the companies involved and the employees who were involved in making this event possible. The biggest impetus for forming a franchise partnership with an insurance clinic was that they had a system that could analyze customers’ insurance policies. Based on easy-to-understand analysis results, we can provide easy-to-understand suggestions on what customers really need. As MK Oil, which has based its business on a community-based basis, our greatest strength is our ability to make proposals that are easy for customers to understand. We hope to improve the skills of our employees, create an environment that is easy to work in, and hope that in the future we will continue to be able to work with local customers as a place where they can first consult with us about their insurance problems. -MK Group – A corporate group that operates the heart-shaped MK Taxi, which operates in eight cities nationwide, as well as other businesses such as hire cars, sightseeing buses, operation management businesses, rental cars, gas stations, and amusement facilities. The company is recognized both domestically and internationally for its high-quality customer service and high-grade vehicles. It is managed by three groups: MK Holdings Group, MK West Japan Group, and Tokyo MK Co., Ltd. MK Holdings Group is a holding company of MK Holdings Co., Ltd., and its affiliated companies are MK Co., Ltd., Shiga MK Co., Ltd., Nagoya MK Co., Ltd., Sapporo MK Co., Ltd., MK Oil Co., Ltd., MK Tourist Bus Co., Ltd., and Best Value Energy Co., Ltd. There is. MK West Japan Group consists of Osaka MK Co., Ltd., Kobe MK Co., Ltd., Kansai MK Co., Ltd., Fukuoka MK Co., Ltd., and Okinawa MK Co., Ltd.