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FOCUS TMT stocks finding favour again as managers foresee digicoms ...
Thomson Investment Management News (subscription), UK - Jun 29, 2008
'Traditional retail sales figures may be on a downward trend in Japan, but overall consumption is growing on the back of these new services. ...
Ad Track: Winning ads really work for consumers
USA Today -
A print ad in the newspaper called on "old" and "new" Indians to help make the nation a world power and sought entrants for a TV talent show to find new ...

Webware/Cnet
News roundup,
Webware/Cnet, CA -
On Wednesday morning, I read about a new site called OurSignal, which mashes up the top headlines from Digg, Reddit, Delicious, and HackerNews, promising to ...NWS.A
Why do business in Tokyo?
Exec Digital, UK -
Tokyo has many strong local companies and Japanese companies will develop strategies to compete hard against new entrants - online auction site eBay was ...
Seed Money Is Still Finding Funds
Wall Street Journal -
... from $325 million a year ago to $200 million because of the credit crisis, but added that "the market is going to give opportunities to new entrants. ...
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Lloyd's List
Shipbuilders' earnings set to accelerate in next two years
Lloyd's List, UK -
With China?s capacity increases and new entrants from India, Vietnam, and the Philippines, HSBC has ?no doubt that the growth of global shipbuilding ...

CBC.ca
Canadian iPhone buyers face long lock-ins
CBC.ca, Canada - Jun 23, 2008
Rogers executives have refused to confirm they have an exclusive deal with Apple to carry the iPhone, meaning new entrants ? a crop that potentially ...

India Infoline.com
Mr Vimal K Patel, Chairman, Banco Products India Ltd
India Infoline.com, India - Jun 23, 2008
With new entrants coming into the sector, what changes are being witnessed in the industry? In India we have many more entrants compared to what we had ...

Legal Business Online
THE ALB 50: Asia?s Largest Firms
Legal Business Online, Australia - Jun 29, 2008
All this, he suggests, is part of a natural maturing of the Chinese legal market which will make it increasingly difficult for new entrants to catch up with ...
Great Call on Potash Corp! What's Next?
Motley Fool - Jun 24, 2008
It could be hurt if competitors make significant technological progress, or if new entrants continue to flood the market. Of course, the best certainly ...
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[CITATION] What is strategy? -
ME Porter - Strategy for Business: A Reader, 2002 - Sage
... of its best-selling Corolla in Japan with unpainted ... Existing companies that try to
reposition or straddle ... And even new entrants, though they do not confront ...

The Coevolution of New Organizational Forms -
AY Lewin, CP Long, TN Carroll - Organization Science, 1999 - JSTOR
... Moreover capturing interaction effects of new entrants, competitive dynamics ... Praeger,
New York ... Impact of CEO succession in Japanese companies: A coevolutionary ...

The R&D Boundaries of the Firm: An Empirical Analysis -
GP Pisano - Administrative Science Quarterly, 1990 - questia.com
... on European-based and Japanese-based firms ... the relationship between a company's
dependence on ... of R&D expertise from established enterprises to new entrants. ...

The network paradigm: new departures in corporate and regional development -
P Cooke, K Morgan - Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 1993 - envplan.com
... this networked or integrative approach "created a new style of ... things, it highlights
the different biases in Japanese and Western companies, for example ...

[CITATION] A transaction costs theory of equity joint ventures
JF Hennart - Strategic Management Journal, 1988
... and with the degree to which entrants are familiar ... must acquire skills in marketing
their new products and ... view that JVs are a way for Japanese companies to buy ...

Prolegomena on Coevolution: A Framework for Research on Strategy and New Organizational Forms -
AY Lewin, HW Volberda - Organization Science, 1999 - JSTOR
... discontinuities that usher in new entrants can be ... The evolution of new organizational
forms. ... Impact of CEO succession in Japanese companies: A coevolutionary ...

Incumbent Entry into New Market Niches: The Role of Experience and Managerial Choice in the Creation … -
AA King, CL Tucci - Management Science, 2002 - INFORMS
... based on firm characteristics of entrants and nonen ... KING AND TUCCI Incumbent Entry
into New Market Niches ... tion was owned by a Japanese company (Japan) or by a ...

Modular production networks: a new American model of industrial organization -
TJ Sturgeon - Industrial and Corporate Change, 2002 - Oxford Univ Press
... image of networks emanating from Japan, Germany and ... cases had to add entirely new
competence areas ... a significant number of US electronics companies are adapting ...

Falling forward: Real options reasoning and entrepreneurial failure -
RG McGrath - Academy of Management Review, 1999 - JSTOR
... 1999 McGrath 19 new entrants developed the same optimistic ... for taking initiative;
in large Japanese penalties of ... generated free riding and companies, in which ...

First-mover advantages -
MB Lieberman, DB Montgomery - Strategic Management Journal, 1988 - JSTOR
... Firms whose entrepreneurial vision and new-product R&D ... from imitation, to prevent
later entrants from 'free ... Tohatsu, the leading Japanese motorcycle producer in ...

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New company to advise entrants to Japanese FOSHU market

Companies seeking to enter the FOSHU and health foods market in Japan may now benefit from the expertise of TSD Wellness, a joint venture set up by Toyo Shinyaku and Dentsu as a one-stop shop for the development and marketing of differentiated products.

 
The companies decided to establish TSD Wellness with capital of Y50m (c €0.35m) because the FOSHU (food for specified health uses, known as TOKUHO in Japan) and health foods market is growing on an annual basis, yet it is already crowded.

In order to make their mark in this environment, companies need to develop sophisticated, value added products and back them up with strong evidence, they say. According to US-based market researcher Paul Yamaguchi and Associates, the Japanese nutrition market is valued in the region of US$27 bn (c Y3100bn, €21bn) but FOSHU foods account for only $6 bn (Y690, €4.7bn) of this. Non-FOSHU functional foods account for $11 bln (Y1264 bln, €8.7), and dietary supplements around the same.

Toyo Shinyako is an R&D company that claims to have the largest number of FOSHU products in Japan, and which develops products in-house for major food and pharmaceutical manufacturers. It also offers contract research services.

The new venture will leverage Toyo Shinyako's product development expertise. Dentsu's contribution (an advertising agency) will be to advise on what consumers are looking for in healthy food products, as well as communication strategies tailored to the product type, sales channels and other variables.

Toyo Shinyaka holds a 66 per cent share of the new company, and Dentsu 34 per cent.

Yamaguchi told NutraIngredients.com earlier this year that innovation is crucial to Japan's success in the global marketplace.

“Japan has to innovate to come to the global market for any industry,” he said. “We cannot compete with China over low cost manufacturing, or with other developed countries in other ways. So we have to innovate in new areas to survive in the local market. Health is part of this.”

Japan was the first company to introduce a programme of health claims approvals in the 1980s.

But Yamaguchi said that the high cost of FOSHU registration, which can amount to as much as a million US dollars, can put some companies off. He maintains that, FOSHU or not, a healthy food product will still sell if it is a good one.

 
 
 
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