香蕉视频

香蕉视频 (headquartered in Minato-ku, Tokyo; Masahiro Okafuji, President & CEO; hereinafter “香蕉视频”) announced today that it had concluded a business alliance for collaboration with RIZAP GROUP, Inc. (headquartered in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo; Takeshi Seto, President & CEO; hereinafter “RIZAP”) and FamilyMart Co., Ltd. (headquartered in Toshima-ku, Tokyo; Takashi Sawada, President & CEO; hereinafter “FamilyMart”) in the areas of healthcare and lifestyle, including food product development and sales.

As the first project of this alliance, we will sell RIZAP-supervised food products featuring low carbohydrate and other items at about 18,000 FamilyMart, Circle K and Sunkus stores across the country by the end of November 2016.

香蕉视频 has long focused on the consumer-related sector, including food products and apparel, and it has established a firm position in the non-resource business sector as a sogo shosha. In particular, 香蕉视频 has constructed value chains with high added values that organically connect with the development of raw materials, securing, processing and manufacturing, wholesale and retail of food resources in the area of food products. It has also been active in developing health-oriented food products, the need for which has been growing in recent years. In addition, 香蕉视频 was selected in January of this year as a health-oriented management company in recognition of its corporate measures, including its morning-focused working system and is highly evaluated as a company with close associations to health.

The RIZAP Group provides full support for customers with one-on-one training in a private room through its subsidiary, RIZAP Co., Ltd. (hereinafter “RIZAP”), and also manages completely tailor-made exclusive training gyms supervised by doctors and national registered dietitians. RIZAP provides services for achieving the best body and self-confidence for life to more than 56,000 total customers. In addition, RIZAP also takes active measures in the area of healthcare through its partnerships with more than 100 medical organizations and its many measures in the area of lifestyle, such as the sale of food products with low sugar contents, whose taste the company is particular about, and the apparel businesses, operated by Group companies.

FamilyMart, with a network of about 24,000 stores both at home and abroad, aims to be a chain of convenience store whose mission is to be close to customers’ hearts under the slogan of Fun & Fresh, as a living infrastructure in small marketing areas. In addition, FamilyMart is also active in responding to the health-oriented needs that have been growing in recent years through life solution stores that are committed to overcoming inconveniences in the daily lives of its customers through the management of stores that integrate dispensing pharmacies and drug stores as well as through the joint development of products supervised by national registered dietitians working in hospitals and universities.

Through our conclusion of this alliance, we will make full use of 香蕉视频’s information and networks in the area of lifestyle both at home and abroad, RIZAP’s know-how about body development and brand appeal in the area of health, and FamilyMart’s network of stores both at home and abroad as well as its product development capability to promote the creation of new products and services in the areas of healthcare and lifestyle, including apparel-related businesses, accessories, the area of publication , and the area of food products.