K&O Energy Group, Inc.

On the 23rd, multiple companies announced new initiatives and earnings. A consolidated subsidiary of Tsukada Global Holdings will manage the wedding operations at Hotel Gajoen Tokyo, and K&O Energy Group will introduce a shareholder benefit program offering electronic gifts based on the number of shares held to shareholders who have held shares for at least one year. 31 Ice Cream reported a double-digit decline in operating profit for the cumulative second quarter of the fiscal year ending December 2026, while Nagase fell into the red in the first quarter of the fiscal year ending March 2027. Shin-Etsu Polymer posted a consolidated operating profit of 4.148 billion yen, up 8.6% year on year, for the first quarter of the fiscal year ending March 2027, and disclosed its previously undisclosed full-year plan of 120 billion yen in revenue and 16 billion yen in operating profit. JIA made yacht and motorboat dealer Keyside a subsidiary, and KOA revised upward its consolidated operating profit forecast for the fiscal year ending March 2027 from 2.83 billion yen to 5.36 billion yen. Accelmark formed a business alliance with Medical Frontier, and Urbanet Corporation raised its consolidated operating profit plan for the fiscal year ending June 2026 from 3.623 billion yen to 4.1 billion yen. Iole will engage in a strategic collaboration with Castrol of the UK and WOODMAN on next-generation liquid cooling and immersion cooling solutions for AI data centers.

Green Energy & Company has received an additional order from Erex for the construction of a grid storage battery system. Disco reported a 32% increase in first-half ordinary profit, achieving record earnings for the third consecutive term, and raised its previously undecided first-half dividend by 42 yen. K&O Energy Group introduced a shareholder benefit program, granting electronic gifts worth 500 to 24,000 yen depending on the number of shares held and the holding period, to shareholders who continuously hold 100 shares or more for at least one year as of the end of December each year. Eole announced a strategic collaboration with Castrol and Woodman for the joint development and market deployment of next-generation liquid cooling and immersion cooling solutions for AI data centers, planning to start sales of an immersion cooling solution equipped with the latest NVIDIA AI inference GPU in August and begin delivery to a data center in September. Meanwhile, Hove has been decided to be delisted effective January 1, 2027, and B-R 31 Ice Cream reported a 9% decline in first-half ordinary profit, with the April-June quarter also down 16%.

After the market close on July 23, several companies announced new or expanded shareholder benefit programs. Among the new launches, K&O Energy Group will offer shareholders who hold at least 100 shares continuously for one year or more as of the end of December each year a selection of electronic gifts worth between 500 and 24,000 yen, depending on the number of shares and holding period. Nihon Nohyaku will present shareholders holding at least 100 shares as of the end of September each year with four rice vouchers worth 1,760 yen. Daikokuya Holdings will give shareholders holding at least 1,000 shares for six months or more as of the end of March each year a 3,000-yen voucher usable at its stores. In terms of expansions, Weathernews is lowering the shareholding requirement from the current 200 shares or more to 100 shares or more.