Nobuhiko Matsumoto Email & Phone Number

Hq:Kobe, Hyogo, Japan .Br:Shinjuku,Tokyo,Japan Global Hq:Singapore, Singapore

Taking advantage of our experience about franchise businesses in Japan for long years, we would like to do our best to be Bridge-Gate between the Japanese franchise business and Asian countries.

日本 東京都

Headquarters of TOKYO8, an agricultural support franchise

Sustainable Fishery ,MSC

In 1991, we started the business that was not yet found in Japan, or even in the world.That business was to become an agency who provides franchise store-development service. We came up with the idea to persuade companies to join a franchise as their new business; our target was not individuals, but the small and medium-sized enterprises who already established with their businesses.It was started by Director Nobuhiko Matsumoto as a business division of one company, and it was named “business brokerage service”. Soon after this department was started, Akira Tsuchiya joined the team, and we developed the business together. Our first client was St. Marc Café.St. Marc Café has its headquarters in Okayama, a provincial city in Japan, and back then, it was a small chain that had only 2 directly-managed stores and 2 franchise-member stores.This franchise business was to open a 3500sqft store on 20,000sqft land with 2 million USD initial investment cost (excluding the cost for land acquisition).We successfully expanded their business into over 150 stores within 4 years, and the St. Marc Café became a public-listed company in 1995.With that as a start, we managed to expand over 30 franchise brands including various restaurant brands i.e. BBQ “Gyukaku”, steak “France-Tei”, katsudon “Katsuya”, sushi delivery “Gin-no Sara”, and from other hospitality business categories i.e. second-hand automobile dealer “Guliver”, second-hand golf club dealer “Golf Partner”, children’s learning school “7 habits” (partnered with American company, Franklin Covey), women’s fitness club “Curves” (as a master franchiser of the American brand), by selling new businesses to small to medium-sized enterprises in Japan. Number of the stores we successfully opened are over 8000.

Tokyo, Japan

In 1991, we started the business that was not yet found in Japan, or even in the world.That business was to become an agency who provides franchise store-development service. We came up with the idea to persuade companies to join a franchise as their new business; our target was not individuals, but the small and medium-sized enterprises who already established with their businesses.It was started by Director Nobuhiko Matsumoto as a business division of one company, and it was named “business brokerage service”. Soon after this department was started, Akira Tsuchiya joined the team, and we developed the business together. Our first client was St. Marc Café.St. Marc Café has its headquarters in Okayama, a provincial city in Japan, and back then, it was a small chain that had only 2 directly-managed stores and 2 franchise-member stores.This franchise business was to open a 3500sqft store on 20,000sqft land with 2 million USD initial investment cost (excluding the cost for land acquisition).We successfully expanded their business into over 150 stores within 4 years, and the St. Marc Café became a public-listed company in 1995.With that as a start, we managed to expand over 30 franchise brands including various restaurant brands i.e. BBQ “Gyukaku”, steak “France-Tei”, katsudon “Katsuya”, sushi delivery “Gin-no Sara”, and from other hospitality business categories i.e. second-hand automobile dealer “Guliver”, second-hand golf club dealer “Golf Partner”, children’s learning school “7 habits” (partnered with American company, Franklin Covey), women’s fitness club “Curves” (as a master franchiser of the American brand), by selling new businesses to small to medium-sized enterprises in Japan. Number of the stores we successfully opened are over 8000.