Value Creation Process

In the spirit of progress × fit, the Takashima Group has developed its business by creating value in collaboration with customers, pursuing customer value without fear of change. We have consistently created value as a trading company that picks up on customer requirements, allocates management resources appropriately, and uses original ideas to provide functions and solutions that customers truly need. With materiality-oriented management, we will pursue the creation of new value we set in the goal of the medium-term management plan “Sustainability V (Value)” through the formulation of strategies that take advantage of market growth opportunities.

Business Model (Value-Adding Trading Company)

The Group’s “value-adding trading company” business model focuses on pursuing customer value in target markets instead of pursuing excessive wide-market expansion.
We are a trading company that picks up on customer needs and provides customers with the functions and solutions that they truly need, thereby creating high added value and achieving high profitability as a result.

Examples of our business model by industry

Construction supply

Winding fire-resistant covering materials

Winding fire-resistant covering materials are construction supplies used in erecting steel structures. Instead of having housing manufacturers and general contractors handle multiple vendors, we provide one-stop services for inventory management, delivery, and installation of winding fire-resistant covering materials.

Industrial materials

Plastic products, cushioning materials

We carry out design and drawing to testing and verification of industrial packaging according to the needs of customers, and we are able to select the appropriate processing and manufacturing methods and provide products through our Group companies and other manufacturing partners, thereby meeting our customers’ diverse requirements for industrial packaging with our one-stop services.

Electronic devices

EMS leveraging the functions of a trading company
We provide mounting boards primarily for white goods manufacturers at our own factory in Thailand. iTak’s in-house production of custom parts and design-in of cost-effective parts used in Asia enable us to provide one-stop services that boast price superiority and a stable product supply.

Types of trading company business model

Value-adding trading companies
 

Trading companies with a focus on providing added value

This corresponds to the Group’s business model. We are a trading company that provides customers with the functions and solutions that they truly need, thereby creating high added value and achieving high profitability as a result.

Business investment trading companies


A common business model among general trading companies
Invest management resources such as capital, human assets, and expertise into portfolio companies and carry out business reorganization and so forth to increase their enterprise value, in order to receive a return on investment.

Trading companies that pursue transaction scale


A common business model among specialized trading companies with a limited field of products

Leverage extensive nationwide sales network and sales capabilities in pursuit of expanding the products handled and the scale of transactions, thereby retaining price superiority and securing profits.