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History

  • 1993September

    Founded Raccoon Trade Service (sole proprietor) in Komae, Tokyo.

  • 1995September

    Established Raccoon Trade Service as a private limited company (capital: 5 million yen).

  • 1996May

    Restructured and changed name to Raccoon Co., Ltd. (capital: 10 million yen)

  • 1998August

    Launched "Online Gekiyasu Donya" website offering BtoB services handling surplus inventory.

  • 2000April

    The head office is moved to Dogenzaka, Shibuya Ward, Tokyo.
    Received investments from the CEO of Singapore Telecom (later CEO of Singapore Airlines) Koh Boon Hwee, Nikkei Venture Capital and others.

  • 2001November

    The head office is moved to Nihonbashi Hakozaki-cho, Chuo Ward, Tokyo.

  • 2002February

    Launched "SUPER DELIVERY" website offering BtoB services handling new and standard products.

  • 2006April

    Listed on TSE Mothers market.

  • 2007April

    The head office is moved to Nihonbashi Kakigara-cho,Chuo Ward, Tokyo,

  • 2008September

    Launched "Buyer's Navi" website offering BtoB services handling the hottest products.

  • 2009May

    Integrated the service of "Buyer’s Navi" to "SUPER DELIVERY", into one website.

  • 2009May

    Started" SD Payment ", a postpaid payment service specializing in BtoB.

  • 2010November

    Acquired 100% stake in Trust & Growth Co., Ltd., making it a wholly-owned subsidiary.

  • 2011October

    Renewed "SD Payment" and started offering "Paid" for inter-company payment.

  • 2012October

    The head office is moved to current place which is around the area of Kakigaracho Nihonbashi, Chuo-Award, Tokyo.

  • 2014March

    Launched "COREC" cloud-based ordering tools.

  • 2014March

    A service called "Rent Guarantee Service for Businesses" to avoid the risk of nonpayment of rent in office and store property was established.

  • 2015August

    Launched cross-border EC export sales service "SD export" though "SUPER DELIVERY" website.

  • 2015November

    Launched matching service connecting Japanese sewing factories with apparel brands, "SD factory".

  • 2016March

    The market changed from the TSE Mothers market to the TSE First Section.

  • 2016August

    Launched online accounts receivables guarantee service for SMEs, "URIHO".

  • 2018November

    Restructure into a holding company.
    The company name is changed to "RACCOON HOLDINGS, Inc."
    The company name of "Trust & Growth Co., Ltd" is changed to "RACCOON FINANCIAL, Inc."
    The "RACCOON COMMERCE, Inc." is newly established.

  • 2018December

    Obtained 100% of the ALEMO, Inc.'s share, become our owned subsidiary company.

  • 2020May

    ALEMO, Inc. inherited the commercial rental guarantee business of RACCOON FINANCIAL, Inc. and changed the company name to "RACCOON RENT, Inc."

  • 2022April

    Listing moved to the TSE Prime Market due to the TSE market restructuring.

Award History

  • 2000October

    "Online Gekiyasu Donya" received the Business sector Nihon Keizai Shimbun Award at the "Nikkei Internet Award 2000", sponsored by Nihon Keizai Shinbun.

  • 2006February

    Received a special award at the "16th New Business Award", sponsored by General Incorporated Association Tokyo New Business Council.

  • 2006October

    The representative, Ogata received an award from the Growth Category at "EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2006 Japan", sponsored by EY Japan.

  • 2006October

    Awarded 50th place at the "4th Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Japan Technology Fast 50" operated by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu LLC.

  • 2007October

    Awarded 45th place at the "5th Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Japan Technology Fast 50" operated by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu LLC.

  • 2008October

    Awarded 31th place at the "6th Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Japan Technology Fast 50" operated by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu LLC.

  • 2016June

    "SUPER DELIVERY" received the Minister of Regional Revitalization Award at the "1st Japan Service Awards", sponsored by Service Industry Productivity Council.

  • 2017February

    Awarded as the Best Company at the "Best Workplaces Japan 2017", sponsored by GPTW.

  • 2017March

    Awarded the Grand Prize in the Women's Advancement Category (East Japan) at the "2nd Good-standing Company Award", sponsored by Japan Next Generation Enterprise Promotion Organization.

  • 2017December

    "URIHO" Awarded the Fintech Award at the "Ruby biz Grand Prix2017", sponsored by General Incorporated Foundation Ruby Association.

  • 2018February

    Awarded as the Best Company at the "Best Workplaces Japan 2018", sponsored by GPTW.

  • 2018March

    Awarded the Grand Prize in the Office environment Category at the "3rd Good-standing Company Award", sponsored by Japan Next Generation Enterprise Promotion Organization .

  • 2019February

    Awarded as the Best Company at the "Best Workplaces Japan 2019", sponsored by GPTW.

  • 2019September

    "URIHO" was awarded the Technology Award at the "Fintech Award 2019", sponsored by General Incorporated Association FinTech Garden.

  • 2019December

    "URIHO" was awarded the Excellence Award at the "Japan Subscription Business Awards 2019", sponsored by General Incorporated Association Japan Subscription Business Association.

  • 2020February

    Awarded as the Best Company at the "Best Workplaces Japan 2020", sponsored by GPTW.

  • 2020July

    Awarded the Unique employee training category at the "Apollo Award", sponsored by Apollo Group Co., Ltd.

  • 2021October

    "Paid" awarded the High Performer in Billing agency category and Settlement agency category at the "IT review Grid Award 2021 Fall", sponsored by IT Cloud Co., Ltd.

  • 2021November

    "COREC" awarded the Encouragement Award at the "ASPIC IoT / AI / Cloud Award 2021", sponsored by General Incorporated Association ASP / SaaS / AI / IoT Cloud Industry Association.

  • 2022January

    "Paid" awarded the High Performer in Billing agency category and the Leader in Settlement agency category at the "IT review Grid Award 2022 Winter", sponsored by IT Cloud Co., Ltd."