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Nov 22, 2012 Local News
Oita’s Mobile Create to be Listed on Q-Board
The Fukuoka Stock Exchange announced that Mobile Create Co. of Oita would be listed on their Q-Board for new startups on December 20. It is the first new Q-Board listing in five ye...
Nov 22, 2012 Local News
60% of Primary Kyushu Companies Report Losses or Declining Profits
A total of 60 primary Kyushu non-bank companies released their interim business reports for the current fiscal year. Of the 53 companies for which a comparison is possible, 33, or ...
Nov 22, 2012 Local News
Ito En to Expand Tea Acreage in Oita
Tea beverage manufacturer Ito En has signed an agreement with three cities in Oita Prefecture to create about 100 hectares of new tea plantations in the prefecture. The objective i...
Nov 22, 2012 Local News
Profits Fall for 12 Kyushu Regional Banks
The 18 regional banks headquartered in Kyushu released their interim reports for the current fiscal year. A total of 12 of those banks reported lower core net profits. This was att...
Nov 22, 2012 Local News
Daihatsu Considering Shift of Development Functions to Kyushu
Daihatsu Motor Co. announced it is mulling the shift its research and development operations now based at their Osaka plant to the Kurume plant of their Kyushu subsidiary starting ...
Nov 15, 2012 Local News
Regional Companies Pessimistic about Economy
The Nishinippon Shimbun conducted a survey of 111 leading companies in Kyushu on their views of the economy. The respondents who anticipate an economic downturn accounted for 28.8%...
Nov 15, 2012 Local News
New Canal City Wing Posts 5.8 Billion Yen in First-Year Sales
The East Building, a new wing for the commercial complex Canal City in Fukuoka City, rang up sales of 5.8 billion yen in its first year of operation after opening in September 2011...
Nov 15, 2012 Local News
Hoken 100-Ban Opens Franchised Outlet in LA
Hoken 100-Ban, an insurance agency based in Kasuya-machi, Fukuoka Prefecture, opened a franchised outlet in Los Angeles, California. It is the agency’s second overseas franchised o...
Nov 15, 2012 Local News
More than 100 Regional Bankruptcies in October
The Fukuoka branch of Tokyo Shokoh Research released its statistics for bankruptcies with liabilities exceeding 10 million yen in Kyushu and Okinawa Prefecture in October. There wa...
Nov 15, 2012 Local News
Toyota Subsidiary to Begin Business for Assisted Travel
Toyota Kyushu Subsidiary Hello Life and Matsukawa Taxi, which has a license for transporting people requiring long-term care, have formed an agreement to operate a business in whic...