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B SUPPLY INC.

Weaving Passion into New Value

Consulting ── Investment ── Value Up

Bringing Japan's Tradition, Culture, and Craftsmanship to the World. SCROLL

01MISSION

Weaving Passion into New Value

We inherit
the craftsmanship and passion honed over many years,
bring together the wisdom of old and new,
and guide businesses to their next stage.

02CORE VALUE

Aim high and challenge boldly.

A BOLD CHALLENGE

Always experiment with singular originality.

ONLY ONE UNIQUENESS

Approach every person and every matter with love.

POUR LOVE INTO EVERYTHING

Hold an aesthetic that does not bend to the crowd.

AN AESTHETIC THAT DOESN’T PANDER TO THE MASSES

Pursue the margin that lies beyond mere rationality.

THE MARGIN BEYOND RATIONALITY

03VISION

Building a society where businesses built on passion never disappear

THE ISSUE ── The Challenge We Address

Never letting a business of value come to an end

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Annual Business Closures and Dissolutions
(2025, an all-time high)

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Share of Closed Businesses
That Were Profitable

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Average Age of Company Presidents
(a record high for the 35th consecutive year)

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Share of Companies Without a Successor

The absence of successors is quietly eroding craftsmanship, employment, and trust.
As a steward of succession and management, we carry that value forward into the next era.

Sources: business closures and dissolutions, average president age, successor absence rate (2025 surveys)

Japan's tradition and culture, and the technical excellence and commitment to quality found in its SMEs, can compete on the global stage.
We weave together the history, passion, and craftsmanship of SMEs to build businesses that leap onto the global stage.

By combining the tradition, culture, and craftsmanship of SMEs with B supply's sales, marketing, and digital transformation capabilities, we spark a chemical reaction that grows the business.

04BUSINESS

Three businesses in a virtuous cycle, accelerating value creation

Consulting Investment Value Up B supply

06BUSINESS ── INVESTMENT

SME Investment

Japan is home to countless companies with craftsmanship and stories too valuable to lose.
Through investment and succession, we carry that value forward into the next era.

07MESSAGE ── A Message from Our Representative

Carrying the businesses worth preserving into the next era

Japan is home to craftsmanship honed over long years.
There are companies rooted in their communities, protecting jobs and building trust with business partners, that have quietly supported society.
Yet today, many of them face the major challenge of a shortage of successors.

When a business comes to an end, it is not simply that one company disappears. It means that the craftsman's skill, the wisdom accumulated on the ground, relationships with customers, and even the passion built up by founders and employees are severed as well.

We at B supply exist to carry forward such businesses and help them grow even stronger.

We are not a fund entrusted with capital from outside investors.
We are a principal investment company that acquires shares with our own capital. That is precisely why we can commit to a business for the long term, unconstrained by any short-term exit deadline.
Acquiring shares is not our goal.
Rather, it is where the real work truly begins.

In 2026, as our first transaction, we succeeded a leather manufacturing workshop in Sumida, Tokyo, that has operated continuously since 1966. Standing in a workshop where craftsmanship has been passed down for more than half a century, and witnessing the craftsmen's handiwork firsthand, we came to feel something anew.
A truly valuable business cannot be measured by the numbers on a financial statement alone.
Within it lies trust built over time, and human pride.

While respecting that value, we build up, one by one, the changes that are needed: management systems, sales strategy, recruiting, digital adoption, and operational improvement. Protecting what should be protected, and changing what should be changed. We take on both, head-on.

A small team, doing great work.
We go to the ground, listen to people's voices, and manage with a hands-on feel.
At the same time, we actively adopt technology and new systems.
Tradition and innovation are not in conflict.
We believe that new capabilities are precisely what is needed to carry a legacy business into the future.

We want to build a society not where businesses built on passion quietly disappear, but where companies of value meet their next steward and continue to grow.
By engaging earnestly with the succession and growth of each and every company, we aim to carry businesses built on passion into the future and contribute to Japan's development.

Ryo Nagao ── Founder / CEO

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