Our Highlight

*As a result of changes in reporting segments, the data shown here has been retroactively revised to reflect the new segments.

Overview and characteristics

This segment includes all businesses not included in our Leasing business, Finance business, and Investment business. Mainly, this segment included services where the Company acts as an agent in addressing customer's needs regarding making operations more efficient with respect to primarily customers' loan asset management.
Also, it includes our healthcare business and energy business, which are to be newly tackled as we promote the realization of CSV management.

PFI/PPP business

PFI/PPP are public-private collaborative projects that make use of private-sector funding, management skills, and technical capabilities for building, managing, and operating public facilities. We have promoted PFI/PPP with a customer base of public offices and local governments that we have cultivated with our Leasing and Installment Sales Business. Our primary role has been to construct the most appropriate structures for the business, provide support for low-interest procurement of funds, and draft proposals for public offices and local governments. As of FY2019, we have been involved with 31 projects, including educational and cultural facilities.
The expansion of our business was evident in October 2018, when we became a representative contractor for the first time in our work on the “City of Tea and Uji Historical Park Maintenance and Operation Project (tentative name)” in Uji, Kyoto Prefecture.

Energy Business

In addition to solar power generation business through Special Purpose Companies (SPC), this segment handles the operation of new regional Power Producer and Suppliers (PPS) and the purchase and sale of power.
Hamamatsu-Shindenryoku Ltd., a new local energy company established in 2015, uses power generation plants in the city of Hamamatsu to supply power to all elementary and junior high schools within the city under the concept of “local production and local consumption of power.” The sources of power handled are not limited to solar, and have expanded to also include wind, biomass, and hydrogen. In April 2019, we became involved in a hydroelectric power generation project through capital participation in Mirai Energy Partners Co., Ltd.

Healthcare-related Business

In 2015, we established a healthcare and medical investment corporation together with Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation and Ship Healthcare Holdings Inc. The investment corporation is currently listed on the J-REIT market, and support REIT operation through our warehousing business operations for the healthcare facilities.