Capital and Enterprise Alliance Fashioned Between MEDIROM MOTHER Labs and NFES Applied sciences By Investing.com

TOKYO, Aug. 23, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — MEDIROM Healthcare Applied sciences Inc. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Koji Eguchi; listed on Nasdaq, NASDAQ: MRM; hereinafter MEDIROM) proclaims that its subsidiary MEDIROM MOTHER Labs Inc. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Yoshio Uekusa; hereinafter MOTHER Labs), has fashioned a capital and enterprise alliance with NFES Applied sciences Inc. (Headquarters: Matsue Metropolis, Shimane Prefecture; CEO: Keita Adachi; hereinafter NFES Group), a subsidiary of NFES Inc. (Headquarters: Matsue Metropolis, Shimane Prefecture; CEO: Keita Adachi).

As a part of this alliance, NFES Group has agreed to take part because the lead investor in MOTHER Labs’ Collection A financing spherical, which values MOTHER Labs at 9 billion yen on a pre-money foundation. The Collection A shares shall be issued to NFES Group as a third-party allotment.

—¾ï¸Background of the Capital and Enterprise Alliance
The NFES Group is dedicated to making a world the place people can passionately pursue what they love. They resonate with MOTHER Labs’ dedication to international challenges as a Japanese firm and the idea behind the MOTHER Bracelet, a recharge-free sensible tracker designed to watch folks’s well being. This shared imaginative and prescient led to the capital and enterprise alliance, with the goal of collaborating with MOTHER Labs to advertise the MOTHER Bracelet and assist the well being of individuals worldwide.

—¾ï¸Future Initiatives
Now we have concluded a distributorship settlement for MOTHER Bracelet, the recharge-free sensible tracker developed by the MEDIROM group, and MOTHER Gateway, MEDIROM’s telecommunication gadget which completely allows knowledge generated by MOTHER Bracelet to be despatched to our proprietarily developed distant monitoring system, and can introduce these merchandise to firms within the nursing care, transportation, and manufacturing industries and promote their introduction via collaborations with monetary establishments and gross sales companions allied with NFES Group.

As well as, MOTHER Labs can even collaborate with Hyakkaten.com (a regional division retailer e-commerce mall operated by NFES Group) to conduct normal gross sales via department shops and e-commerce websites nationwide.

With NFES Group collaborating because the lead investor on this Collection A spherical, we anticipate attracting further traders, permitting us to safe the required funds for MOTHER Labs’ enterprise growth and facilitating the corporate’s additional enterprise improvement.

—¾ï¸Gross sales Construction
The NFES Group has established a brand new firm, NFES Applied sciences Inc., specializing in gross sales of MOTHER Bracelet and plans to increase gross sales each domestically and internationally because the designated principal distributor of MOTHER Bracelet merchandise.

Ahead-Wanting Statements Relating to MEDIROM and MOTHER Labs

Sure statements on this press launch are forward-looking statements for functions of the secure harbor provisions underneath the U.S. Non-public Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Ahead-looking statements might embrace estimates or expectations about MEDIROM’s potential or assumed operational outcomes, monetary situation, enterprise methods and plans, market alternatives, aggressive place, trade setting, and potential development alternatives. In some circumstances, forward-looking statements might be recognized by phrases reminiscent of might, will, ought to, design, goal, goal, hope, count on, might, intend, plan, anticipate, estimate, imagine, proceed, predict, mission, potential, purpose, or different phrases that convey the uncertainty of future occasions or outcomes. These statements relate to future occasions or to MEDIROM’s future monetary efficiency, and contain recognized and unknown dangers, uncertainties and different components that will trigger MEDIROM’s precise outcomes, ranges of exercise, efficiency, or achievements to be completely different from any future outcomes, ranges of exercise, efficiency or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. You shouldn’t place undue reliance on forward-looking statements as a result of they contain recognized and unknown dangers, uncertainties and different components that are, in some circumstances, past MEDIROM’s management and which might, and certain will, have an effect on precise outcomes, ranges of exercise, efficiency or achievements. Any forward-looking assertion displays MEDIROM’s present views with respect to future occasions and is topic to those and different dangers, uncertainties and assumptions referring to MEDIROM’s operations, outcomes of operations, development technique and liquidity. A few of the components that would trigger precise outcomes to vary materially from these expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements on this press launch embrace:

• MEDIROM’s means to attain its improvement targets for its enterprise and execute and evolve its development methods, priorities and initiatives;
• MEDIROM’s and NFES Group’s means to collaborate within the anticipated method and on the anticipated phrases;
• MOTHER Labs’ means to safe further traders in its Collection A financing spherical on acceptable phrases, or in any respect;
• adjustments in Japanese and international financial situations and monetary markets, together with their results on MEDIROM’s growth in Japan and sure abroad markets;
• MEDIROM’s means to attain and maintain profitability in its Digital Preventative Healthcare

Section;

• the fluctuation of overseas trade charges, which impacts MEDIROM’s bills and liabilities payable in foreign exchange;
• MEDIROM’s means to keep up and improve the worth of its manufacturers and to implement and keep its logos and defend its different mental property;
• MEDIROM’s means to boost further capital on acceptable phrases or in any respect;
• MEDIROM’s stage of indebtedness and potential restrictions on MEDIROM underneath MEDIROM’s debt devices;
• adjustments in client preferences and MEDIROM’s aggressive setting;
• MEDIROM’s means to answer pure disasters, reminiscent of earthquakes and tsunamis, and to international pandemics, reminiscent of COVID-19; and
• the regulatory setting during which MEDIROM operates.

Extra info on these dangers and different potential components that would have an effect on MEDIROM’s enterprise, popularity, outcomes of operations, monetary situation, and inventory worth is included in MEDIROM’s filings with the Securities and Trade Fee (the SEC), together with within the Danger Elements and Working and Monetary Overview and Prospects sections of MEDIROM’s most just lately filed periodic report on Kind 20-F and subsequent filings, which can be found on the SEC web site at www.sec.gov. MEDIROM assumes no obligation to replace or revise these forward-looking statements for any purpose, or to replace the explanations precise outcomes might differ from these anticipated in these forward-looking statements, even when new info turns into accessible sooner or later.

– MEDIROM MOTHER Labs Inc.

MEDIROM MOTHER Labs Inc., a subsidiary of MEDIROM Healthcare Applied sciences Inc., primarily focuses on the well being tech sector. The corporate’s core actions embrace the Particular Well being Steerage Program supplied via the Lav well being utility and improvement and gross sales of the 24/7 recharge-free MOTHER Bracelet sensible tracker. The tracker’s recognition raised a record-breaking 56.1 million yen on the Japanese crowdfunding platform Makuake. By leveraging the options of the recharge-free MOTHER Bracelet, MOTHER Labs affords customizable well being administration options throughout various sectors, together with caregiving, logistics, manufacturing, and so forth.

・Firm Overview
Firm Identify: MEDIROM MOTHER Labs Inc.
Headquarters: Tradepia Odaiba, 2-3-1 Daiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Consultant: Kouji Eguchi, Yoshio Uekusa
Institution: July 2023
Enterprise Space: Well being Tech Enterprise / Gadget Enterprise / Software program Providers

– About MEDIROM Healthcare Applied sciences Inc.

・Firm Overview
Firm Identify: MEDIROM Healthcare Applied sciences Inc.
Listed Market: NASDAQ
Ticker Image: MRM

Headquarters: Tradepia Odaiba, 2-3-1 Daiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo
CEO/Founder: Kouji Eguchi
Institution: July 2000
URL: https://medirom.co.jp/en

—¾ï¸About NFES Applied sciences Inc.

NFES Applied sciences Inc. is a well being tech firm established as a subsidiary of NFES Company, which develops inventive enterprise. The corporate will develop its enterprise centered on gross sales and system linkage of the MOTHER Bracelet sensible tracker, which requires no recharging 24 hours a day, one year a 12 months, and the MOTHER Gateway telecommunication gadget.

Firm identify: NFES Applied sciences, Inc.
Head Workplace: Shimane Financial institution Head Workplace Constructing 11F, 484-19 Asahi-cho, Matsue Metropolis, Shimane Prefecture
Consultant: Keita Adachi, CEO
Institution: July 2024
Enterprise: Well being tech enterprise
URL: https://nfes-tech.com

—¾ï¸About NFES Inc.

Firm identify: NFES Inc.
Head Workplace: Shimane Financial institution Head Workplace Bldg. 11F, 484-19 Asahi-cho, Matsue Metropolis, Shimane Prefecture
Consultant: Keita Adachi, CEO
Institution: Might 2022
Enterprise description: Artistic enterprise
URL: https://nfes.enjoyable

Contacts
Investor Relations Staff
ir@medirom.co.jp

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Supply: MEDIROM Healthcare Applied sciences Inc.