Senior Executive Officer
In charge of Co-Creative Investment

MARUI GROUP's forward-looking investments include co-creative investments and new business investments. Co-creative investments are conducted to incorporate external innovation through collaboration with start-ups and other partners whereas the purpose of new business investments is to generate innovation within the Company. The vanguard for pursuing success in open innovation through co-creative investments is co-creative teams. These teams are led by executive officers and comprise members selected from throughout the Group who promote collaboration alongside their general business responsibilities to produce victories of co-creation and thereby heighten the corporate value of investees.

MARUI GROUP is committed to being an entity that customers deem to be necessary by resolving social issues while growing sustainability. However, there is a limit to the extent to which we can evolve by ourselves. We therefore intend to utilize our retailing and fintech insight and expertise to engage in co-creation with start-ups and younger and future generations to achieve earnings growth while producing our desired impact. We have already begun developing new businesses together with university students, representatives of younger generations, and we have embarked on ventures to create new value by resolving social issues together with start-ups. We aim to evolve MARUI GROUP into an intellectual creation company through these co-creation initiatives.