Expert on Japan Retail and Consumer Markets, JapanConsuming

Michael Causton

Michael is co-founder and partner at JapanConsuming.

JapanConsuming is a specialist research firm producing intelligence on Japanese retail and consumer markets. Founded in 2000, JapanConsuming has become the leading provider of insights on Japanese retailers and consumer trends to retailers, brands, government agencies and investors. As well as a highly regarded monthly report on the market, JapanConsuming produces in-depth reports and seminars on retail sectors and consumer trends, as well as telephone consulting/meetings with investors. 

All of JapanConsuming's team are bilingual and bi-cultural, and the company's research sources are:

Direct meetings with retailers, wholesalers, distributors, trade body staff, govt., marketing firms, academics etc.
Govt. data
Trade association data
Trade Press across all consumer sectors
Unique Network of buyers/managers/marketing staff at retail, as well as wholesalers and trading firms.
Editors/Journalists at publishing houses and PR/Ad firms.


JapanConsuming was founded by Michael Causton and Roy Larke. 

Michael Causton set up and ran a consumer distribution business in Tokyo for 10 years and developed this into a business responsible for annual imports to Japan of several billion Yen, at the same time building up an inside knowledge of how Japanese distribution works and developing a network of contacts across the industry. Seeing the lack of quality market intelligence on Japanese markets, he co-founded JapanConsuming in 2000. He divides his time between Japan and Europe/US consulting for companies, governments and investors, including providing talks, seminars, and webinars as well as writing reports and books.

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JapanConsuming

JapanConsuming is a specialist research firm producing intelligence on Japanese retail and consumer markets. Founded in 2000, JapanConsuming has become the leading provider of insights on Japanese retailers and consumer trends to retailers, brands, government agencies and investors. As well as a highly regarded monthly report on the market, JapanConsuming produces in-depth reports on retail sectors, seminars on key trends and telephone consulting to investors on trends and retailers.

JapanConsuming was founded by Michael Causton and Roy Larke. 

Equity Bottom-Up

<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/oisix-ra-daichi-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:10145:1" rel="noopener">Oisix ra daichi (3182 JP)</a> is one of Japan’s leading online food sellers and by the time you read this should have completed its move to the First Section of the TSE, a testament to its consistent growth over the past few years and its maturing and leading role within food distribution.Oisix has seen demand surge with the current health crisis. So much so that in late April it temporarily stopped accepting new member registrations. It now faces the prospect of even greater demand and the need to balance this with limited supply capacity. It has an opportunity to expand but faces the threat of upsetting existing, loyal customers if things go wrong. Fortunately it was already investing in new fulfilment centres to meet demand.Although the stock isn't cheap, there are good reasons to expect the business to continue to grow overall and in terms of market share, in particular, because of its proven capability in handling product that requires ambient logistics, a highly complex skill that not many competitors can claim to have.For now, the company is forecasting a further solid increase in sales and subscribers this year. While net profit dropped sharply in FY2019, this was partly related to the current crisis, in particular at affiliate Welcome which operates Dean &amp; Deluca and tax offsets in 2018.

Oisix ra daichi (3182 JP) is one of Japan’s leading online food sellers and by the time you read this should have completed its move to the First Section of the TSE, a testament to its consistent growth over the past few years and its maturing and leading role within food distribution.Oisix has seen demand surge with the current health crisis. So much so that in late April it temporarily stopped accepting new member registrations. It now faces the prospect of even greater demand and the need to balance this with limited supply capacity. It has an opportunity to expand but faces the threat of upsetting existing, loyal customers if things go wrong. Fortunately it was already investing in new fulfilment centres to meet demand.Although the stock isn't cheap, there are good reasons to expect the business to continue to grow overall and in terms of market share, in particular, because of its proven capability in handling product that requires ambient logistics, a highly complex skill that not many competitors can claim to have.For now, the company is forecasting a further solid increase in sales and subscribers this year. While net profit dropped sharply in FY2019, this was partly related to the current crisis, in particular at affiliate Welcome which operates Dean &amp; Deluca and tax offsets in 2018.

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