History

1993 September: Founded Raccoon Trade Service (sole proprietor) in Komae, Tokyo.
1995 September: Established Raccoon Trade Service as a private limited company. (capital: 5 million yen)
1996 May: Restructured and changed name to Raccoon Co., Ltd. (capital: 10 million yen)
1998 August: Launched "Online Gekiyasu Donya" website offering BtoB services handling surplus inventory.

Company building at the time of founding

2000 April: 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.
2001 November: The head office is moved to Nihonbashi Hakozaki-cho, Chuo Ward, Tokyo.
2002 February: Launched "SUPER DELIVERY" website offering BtoB services handling new and standard products.
2006 April: Listed on TSE Mothers market.
2007 April: The head office is moved to Nihonbashi Kakigara-cho,Chuo Ward, Tokyo,。
2008 September: Launched "Buyer's Navi" website offering BtoB services handling the hottest products.
2009 May: Integrated the service of "Buyer’s Navi" to "SUPER DELIVERY", into one website.
2009 May: Started" SD Payment ", a postpaid payment service specializing in BtoB.

Company building that was located at Dogen-zaka, Shibuya-ku

Listed on Mothers

2010 November: Acquired 100% stake in Trust & Growth Co., Ltd., making it a wholly-owned subsidiary.
2011 October: Renewed "SD Payment" and started offering "Paid" for inter-company payment.
2012 October: The head office is moved to current place which is around the area of Kakigaracho Nihonbashi, Chuo-Award, Tokyo.
2014 March: Launched "COREC" cloud-based ordering tools.
2014 March: A service called "Rent Guarantee Service for Businesses" to avoid the risk of nonpayment of rent in office and store property was established.
2015 August: Launched cross-border EC export sales service "SD export" though "SUPER DELIVERY" website.
2015 November: Launched matching service connecting Japanese sewing factories with apparel brands, "SD factory".
2016 March: The market changed from the TSE Mothers market to the TSE First Section.
2016 August: Launched online accounts receivables guarantee service for SMEs, "URIHO".
2018 November: 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.
2018 December: Obtained 100% of the ALEMO, Inc.'s share, become our owned subsidiary company.

Current company building

Market change to the TSE First Section

2020 May: ALEMO, Inc. inherited the commercial rental guarantee business of RACCOON FINANCIAL, Inc. and changed the company name to "RACCOON RENT, Inc."
2022 April: Listing moved to the TSE Prime Market due to the TSE market restructuring.