26th General Meeting of Shareholders Passes Resolution to Change Trading Name to DIGITAL HOLDINGS, Inc., Effective July 1, 2020 (Planned)

The previously announced change in the trade name of OPT Holding, Inc. (Head Office: Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo; President & Group CEO: Atsushi Nouchi, hereinafter “the Company”), which is leading corporate digital shift across Japan, was officially decided by resolution of the 26th General Meeting of Shareholders of the Company held on March 27, 2020. The trade name will be changed to DIGITAL HOLDINGS, Inc., effective July 1, 2020 (planned).

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 <Purpose of the Name Change>
The Company began operations in 1994 (under the previous trade name of OPT, Inc.), mainly in the Internet advertising agency business.

The digital revolution has gained momentum and the environment surrounding society and companies is changing almost daily. Against this backdrop, going beyond the Internet advertising agency business and responding to “all forms of digital shift” has not only become a challenge for the prosperity of society and companies, but it has also become a requirement for the development of the OPT Group. The Group therefore has worked to expand its business scope from traditional digital marketing as an Internet advertising agency to include activities that provide total support for companies’ digital shift, such as the development of digital professional human resources and new businesses utilizing digital technologies.

In this context, the Group expanded its digital shift business through a new strategy and a new management structure to transform itself from an Internet advertising agency to a digital shift company, and established a new target: corporate value of one trillion yen by 2030. The Company has determined to change its trade name - its symbol - to DIGITAL HOLDINGS, Inc. to achieve further development as a “digital shift company,” the aim of the Group as a whole, and to meet the needs of increasingly diverse digital businesses.

With a solid determination to succeed in this “third founding” of the Company, the Group will promote digital shift under the Company’s new trade name, and contribute to the sustained development of its customers and society as a whole.

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The General Meeting of Shareholders also resolved on the election of Directors to make up the Company’s new management.
URL: https://www.optholding.co.jp/news/group/detail/id=5274



 

■ Outline of OPT Holding
Company Name: OPT Holding Inc.
Capital: 8.212 billion yen (as of end of December 2018)
President Name: Noboru Hachimine, President & Group CEO
Listing Category: First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (Securities Code: 2389)
Total sales: 87.216 billion JPY (December 2018 consolidated results)
EBITDA: 6.089 billion yen (December 2018 consolidated results)
No. of employees: 1,627 (End of December 2018 consolidated results)
URL: https://www.optholding.co.jp/

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