Unified Groups
Case Study
It is a Japanese specialty store purchasing brand apparel and accessories both domestically and internationally. The company, which also creates its own original designs, is a trend leader Japan’s fashion industry, with 14 house brands and 185 locations. UNITED ARROWS LTD. is also setting trends in its advanced approach to sales activities.
In October 2010, UNITED ARROWS LTD. rolled out its ‘Real-Time Inventory Search’ iPhone application for use in its stores. The new app allowed store employees to respond immediately to customer questions. In November 2011, the company released “UA Style Share,” a style simulator app for the iPhone that lets users mix and match 5,000 items across seven brands offered through the UNITED ARROWS LTD. online store. The app was a hit with users who enjoyed creating their own coordinates, which they could immediately purchase online.
Itami City is located on the border of Hyogo and Osaka, and has flourished along with the development of history and culture, including being recognized by the Agency for Cultural Affairs as the birthplace of sake, a Japanese heritage. Osaka International Airport (Itami Airport), a key airport in the Kansai region, is located in the eastern part of the city, playing an important role as a strategic point for transportation and exchange.
The company was created in 2004 from the merger of Meiji Life and Yasuda Life. It was founded in 1881 and is the first life insurance company in Japan. Its total amount of life insurance in force has reached 210.4859 trillion Japanese Yen, with 6,243,935 contractors (as of March, 2011). Meiji Yasuda Insurance Company has been maintaining a remarkably high level in all soundness indicators.
NTT DATA BUSINESS SYSTEMS serves the SME market mainly in the Kanto area as the core seller company of the Enterprise IT Services Company, one of the companies in the NTT DATA Group. NTT DATA BUSINESS SYSTEMS, which developed a domestic ERP package based on a company established during the privatization of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation, and NTT DATA BUSINESS Quick, which focused on system development and operations for large-scale system development in the corporate sector of NTT DATA, merged in April 2011 to form NTT DATA BUSINESS SYSTEMS.
