[Light Light Co., Ltd.]
Contribute to the community with a side job. We have started recruiting “Regional Coordinators” to support business succession in your area. [Business succession matching platform “relay”]
*Light Light Co., Ltd.*
Press release: August 28, 2024
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Contribute to the community with a side job. We have started recruiting “Regional Coordinators” to support business succession in your area. [Business succession matching platform “relay”]
Light Light Co., Ltd. (Miyazaki City, Miyazaki Prefecture /
Representative Director: Saito) operates the business succession matching platform “relay”
Ryuta) is pleased to announce that we have started recruiting “Regional Coordinators” to support business succession in your area as a side job. We are looking for people to share the know-how that relay has cultivated and work with us to reduce unwanted business closures in the region.
*Overview and background of “Regional Coordinator”*
It is said that Japan has entered the “era of large business closures,” where approximately 50,000 businesses close each year. Data shows that 60% of these businesses go out of business without making a profit due to a lack of successors. 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.
As a pioneer in open name business succession, relay has published 470 successor recruitment cases and created 80 third-party succession matchings all over Japan. We have been ranked No. 1 in business negotiation rate and contract closing rate for three consecutive years (2020-2022)* on a domestic business succession matching platform. *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)
Businesses looking for successors are located in a wide range of locations across the country, from Hokkaido in the north to Okinawa in the south, and LiteLight’s dedicated coordinators have been supporting businesses in a fully remote manner. On the other hand, businesses in 46 prefectures are currently recruiting successors through relay, making it difficult to provide detailed local support in all prefectures. Meanwhile, we have received many requests from all over the country to contribute to the local community and support business succession in the spare time from our main jobs.
Therefore, at relay, we have decided to start a “Regional Coordinator System” in which we share the know-how and materials we have cultivated and provide local support to businesses without successors to those who are interested in the region and business succession. As a side job, you will provide local support for transfers and joints when necessary, limited to your area of residence or the area where you are normally active. As you gain experience, you will eventually become a relay official.
It is also possible to provide further support as a Regional Coordinator.
relay wants to create a world where anyone can support business succession and where business succession becomes more positive and accessible. The regional coordinator system is a step toward that end. We are looking for people who will work with us to reduce the number of “unwanted business closures” of local small businesses.
* [For those who wish to support local business succession as a regional coordinator] *
First, please apply using the application form below. It doesn’t matter what qualifications you have.
*If you would like to hear the story first, please contact us using the form below.
Application form
* [Prefectures that will strengthen recruitment] *
Hokkaido, Aomori, Niigata, Fukushima, Toyama, Saitama, Aichi, Osaka, Shizuoka, Shiga, Gifu, Hiroshima, Ehime, Kagawa, Oita, Kumamoto, Kagoshima
*Prefectures other than those listed above can also apply. If a large number of applications are received for one prefecture, a selection process may be conducted.
* [Example of activities of regional coordinator] *
Support in generating successor recruitment articles
Local support until basic agreement
Message to businesses without a successor
[*We are still recruiting writers/photographers*]
We are still looking for writers/cameramen to create successor recruitment articles. Please contact us using the same application form.
The application condition is “a feeling of concern for the local area.” We look forward to receiving your applications.
Application form
* 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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relay is a program that jointly operates a business succession matching site in collaboration with local governments and commercial and industrial organizations nationwide.
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 expanding across Japan, and as of August, we are collaborating with approximately 75 local governments and commercial and industrial organizations.
relay the local details
* 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 and many others
relay official X
relay official Instagram
* 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