MRK Holdings
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Company Information

Corporate Site 

MRK Holdings, a subsidiary of RIZAP GROUP, engages in the maternity and baby related business in Japan. The company offers maternity wear, nursing clothes, maternity innerwear, baby wear, and baby gifts. It is also involved in the body makeup, beauty, and wedding and banquet related businesses. 

The MRK stands for Maruko, which is their most well-known brand, focusing on women's lingerie and other intimates.

Stock Perks

Rights day

End of March

Details

Points which you can use on an online shareholder-only website and discount coupons.  You can use the points for a wide variety of MRK-related products or exchange them for vouchers for services related to MRK's business or Rizap. Unused points can accumulate for up to three years. The discount coupons can be used for the MISEL brand of stores, which include restaurants, cafes, and hair salons.  Each coupon is worth 5000 yen each, requires a bill of at least 10,000 yen to use so this is more like a 50% off coupon.

The IR page doesn't seem to list the MISEL shops, but they are on the back of the coupons and as of this writing they can be used at:

Trattoria Matrimonio online store.

Trattoria Matrimonio physical restaurant in Akasaka, Tokyo.

Marrygrant wedding venue in Akasaka, Tokyo

Brick Cafe in Komaki, Aichi

Akarenga Garden cafe in Komaki, Aichi

Angelina Sweet wedding venue in Komaki, Aichi

Nine hair salon in Umeda, Osaka

Furusho hair salons in the following cities:

Ueda, Osaka

Nishi-Umeda, Osaka

Kurakuen, Hyogo

Ashiya, Hyogo

Komaki, Aichi

Requirements

Points for the shareholder site:

400 shares - 10,000 points

800 shares - 14,000 points

1,600 shares - 24,000 points

2,400 shares and up - 30,000 points

If you hold the shares for at least 3 years, then you will be allowed into the shareholder site a few days earlier so you can get what you want without the danger of being sold out.

Discount coupons:

100 shares - 1 coupon for 5000 yen, can be used for bills exceeding 10,000 yen.

200 shares and up - 2 coupons for 5000 yen each, can be used for bills exceeding 10,000 yen.

Comment

I always use the discount coupons on the Trattoria online store and just buy food with them, they have some nice sweets at times and the frozen food sets aren't bad. They're not exactly cheap but getting effectively 50% off makes it reasonable. I'd imagine that it's not too hard to exceed 10,000 yen at a hair salon, so if you live near one maybe that would be the best use of them.

For the points, from what I can see the products you can get are priced the same as they would be in yen on Markuo's main website. Their products are high quality and possibly more expensive than what people normally buy, so this is a way to splurge with some higher-end lingerie. The products are extremely focused towards women, so I just let my wife pick something out each year. There is a certain allotment of stock on the shareholder site and a lot of things sell out really fast, so you'll want to make your selection as soon as it opens. Once you hold the stock for 3 years then you can enter earlier and have a much higher chance of getting what you want.

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