In the fields of medical service, preventive healthcare and health promotion, we aim to contribute to higher quality of service and better efficiency by providing total solutions ranging from management support to peripheral services.
Traditionally, the fields of medical service, preventive healthcare and health promotion have involved varied services delivered independently of each other. This has tended to create issues such as operational inefficiency and user inconvenience. The Human Care Business Division provides customers with optimized solutions to address such issues by taking advantage of the total coordination abilities of a sogo shosha along with the services provided by strategic subsidiaries within the value chain.
In October 2007, Ebel Co., Ltd., a chain of dispensing pharmacies affiliated with MC, was merged into another firm, Qol Co., Ltd., in the process creating Japan's fifth largest chain of dispensing pharmacies. Furthermore, in February 2008, MC acquired a 25% equity stake in Yakuju Corporation, the ninth-ranked chain in the industry. Going forward, based on projected changes in the healthcare environment, we aim to build a new pharmacy chain that offers high-value-added services tailored to regional needs.
In other areas, we are promoting the introduction of advanced medical technologies through investments in a Silicon Valley medical device venture fund.
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Hospital PFI Business- MC is involved in a private finance initiative (PFI) project to renovate the Tokyo Metropolitan Komagome Hospital while hospital operations continue. Overall management is being conducted via a project operations company, Komagome SPC, Inc.
