[Light Light Co., Ltd.]
[Business succession support service for local governments] Business succession matching platform “relay”, special page for successor recruitment specialized in Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture “relay the
local Kitakyushu City” opened.
*Light Light Co., Ltd.*
Press release: August 26, 2024
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[Business succession support service for local governments] Business succession matching platform “relay”, special page for successor recruitment specialized in Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture “relay the
local Kitakyushu City” opened.
Light Light Co., Ltd. (Miyazaki City, Miyazaki
Prefecture/Representative Director: Saito) operates the business succession matching platform “relay”
We would like to inform you that we have opened a special page to recruit successors specifically for Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture (Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture / Kitakyushu Mayor: Kazuhisa Takeuchi).
*Overview and background of the partnership*
Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture, has flourished as the gateway to Kyushu since ancient times as a strategic hub for land and sea transportation, and the area around Kokura Station, the city center, is well-equipped with public infrastructure such as large commercial facilities, stadiums, and medical institutions.
In addition, it combines the convenience of the city where you can feel close to nature with the comfort of the countryside, such as Hiraodai, one of Japan’s three major karst plateaus, and Mt. Sarakura, which has been selected as the number one city in the country as one of Japan’s three major night view cities. It’s a town that has everything in place.
While Kitakyushu City has many shops, tastes, and manufacturing that have been loved and nurtured by the local community, 80% of businesses in the city are small-scale businesses, and in recent years there has been an increase in the aging of business owners and the need for succession. There is an increasing number of cases where businesses are forced to close due to lack of staff. The closure of small businesses that have supported local communities is a huge social issue that is directly linked to the decline of local economies as local communities enter super-aging societies.
Kitakyushu City and relay will work together to promote third-party business succession that involves relocation and permanent residence. As the first part of the partnership, we will be promoting the “Relay The Local Kitakyushu City” has been opened and three successor recruitment projects have been published.
Three new successor recruitment projects in Kitakyushu City announced Nankin Ramen Kuromon, a famous ramen restaurant in Wakamatsu Ward, Kitakyushu City, is looking for a successor!
Nankin Ramen Kuromon was founded in 2003 in Onga Town, Fukuoka Prefecture. Even after moving to its current location in Wakamatsu Ward, Kitakyushu City in 2016, the number of customers has remained constant and the business has continued for over 20 years.However, the owner, Mr. Kawauchi, has been thinking about handing over the store. I’m here.
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Kosushi, a long-established sushi restaurant in Kokura Kita Ward, Kitakyushu City, is recruiting successor candidates!
Kosushi is a long-established sushi restaurant. Mr. Harada, the owner of a sushi restaurant that has been in operation for more than half a century since his predecessor, is so skilled that he was selected as the 2018 Kitakyushu Technique Master. Considering his age, we would like to find a successor as soon as possible, so we have decided to recruit successor candidates.
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Barber shop “Hair Live”
FEEL”. The owner, Hisafumi Sakamoto, who has won domestic barber competitions and participated in world competitions, wants to pass on the cutting and treatment techniques he has honed over the years to the younger generation. I would like to inherit the business. View details
*About “relay the local Kitakyushu City”*
On this special page, we will conduct open name matching for business succession, where company names and company information have traditionally been kept hidden, with the aim of speedy matching and high closing rates. In addition, we will create a story about the thoughts that the management has put into the business, and we will publicly solicit enthusiastic successor candidates who can respond to this story. Through this initiative, we aim to continue Kitakyushu City’s business centered on core industries through third-party business succession, and contribute to building a sustainable local community.
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* About business succession matching platform “relay” *
The business succession matching platform “relay” performs open name matching for business succession, where company names and company information have traditionally been hidden, and posts stories of the thoughts that managers have put into their businesses. By broadly soliciting enthusiastic successor candidates who respond to this request, we are creating a new form of business succession based on empathy. Since the start of the service in 2020, we have published approximately 470 successor recruitment cases, generated 75 matches, and ranked No. 1 in business negotiation rate and closing rate for 3 consecutive years on domestic business succession matching platforms (2020-2022 (2017)*.
*Deloitte Tohmatsu
Mic Economic Research Institute Co., Ltd. “Current status and outlook of the domestic business matching platform market [2022/2023 edition]” (mic-r.co.jp)
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In addition, relay is a program called “relay the
Through the operation of “local”, we utilize the support system of local governments and commercial and industrial organizations that give peace of mind to local businesses, and the matching know-how that relay has cultivated over the years. We are working to reduce this. Collaboration is spreading across Japan, and as of August, we are collaborating with approximately 75 local governments and commercial and industrial organizations.
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* Appearance/Publishing*
・Cabinet Secretariat Digital Garden City Nation Plan official homepage “Creating jobs in rural areas”
https://www.cas.go.jp/jp/seisaku/digitaldenen/index.html
・NHK “1mm Revolution: Local Good Together”
https://www.nhk.or.jp/minplus/0027/topic044.html
・ABEMA TV “ABEMA Prime”
https://youtu.be/BAl14TQbrt4?feature=shared
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* Company Profile*
Company name: Light Light Co., Ltd.
Location: Wakakusa Kinjodo Building 2F, 3-3-15 Tachibana-dori Higashi, Miyazaki City, Miyazaki Prefecture
Representative Director: Ryuta Saito
Capital: 50,000,000 yen
Establishment date: January 6, 2020