TSUNAMI Network Partners Newsletter April, 2006 introducing venture companies

TSUNAMI Network Partners Newsletter --- April 2006

Business Plan Presentations held on April 12 , 2006 at Yokohama Branch of Nomura Securities

Vintage Aimoku Co., Ltd.
   Established in August 1995    Capital stock: 117.5 million yen
   http://www.k-aimoku.co.jp/ (Japanese)
   http://kozai.ameblo.jp/ (President's blog titled "Taking a lesson from the past by a dealer of vintage wooden materials" in Japanese)

Franchising of “Kozaisoko (warehouse of vintage wooden materials)” to trade vintage wooden materials.
- nationwide penetration highly expected as scheduled
Operation of a voluntary chain of “Vintage Home” to make use of vintage wooden materials.
Organizing builders to form “Vintage Reform Shop”
Goal to create “Reuse Culture” by making full use of good old things focused on saving classy materials of Japanese traditional houses.

Aska T3 Co, Ltd.
Established in March 2001 Capital stock: 229.024 million yen
http://www.aska-t3.co.jp/ (Japanese)

Planning, development, sales, maintenance, and operation of self order entry system “e-menu” for food service industry.
- Well accepted by both customers and restaurant operators due to efficient order placement even during busy hours as well as easy operation and photographic presentation
Development of order information management system and time & attendance management system at restaurants.
Planning and creative works of digital contents.
Goal to provide the systems to realize amenity services for consumers in food service industry, after commercialization of “e-menu” system.

SeaGreen
   Established in April 1994    Capital stock: 30 million yen
   http://www.seagreen.co.jp/ (Japanese)

ASP of customer management system linking with point card management.
Sales promotion support including direct mail, questionnaire survey management, input service.
Future development focused on operation of shared service of point card portal site “Tamet Club” to realize cost effective way to promote repeaters and approach to sales leads as well as enabling QR code of mobile phone as a point card.
Also knowledge management system for sales promotion of pachinko (Japanese style of pinball) shop operators and development of vertical market service after pachinko shop industry.

ARKWRIGHTS, Co., Ltd.
    Established in September 2004    Capital stock: 20 million yen
    http://www.arkwrights.co.jp/ (Japanese)
    http://www.arkwrights-corp.com/us/en/ (US subsidiary website in English)

Development of B2B business on internet for technology companies including electronics and IT.
- Job search website dedicated to engineers
- Business matching website for the companies engaged in manufacturing, design & development, and network & web construction
- Information site for semiconductors and other electronic devices “Chip Engine”
The websites are designed as easy to find specific information and web system development are almost complete to full scale entry in the market.