Hyogo Western confectionery maker with department store accounts

What is for sale

This is a small, community-based Western confectionery maker and retailer in Hyogo Prefecture, producing and selling cakes and baked goods mainly from its own shop. It supplies both individual customers and corporate and department store clients for gifts and seasonal items. The business was recently taken over from a previous confectionery shop and has continued with small-scale manufacturing and direct sales since; the owner is selling for financial reasons and to reconsider strategy.

Because this is a share sale, the buyer takes over the existing company itself, so its lease, licences and bank account should transfer with it rather than needing fresh applications.

What is included

• Equipment
• Inventory/stock
• Business rights/goodwill (営業権・FC)
• Manufacturing know-how
• SNS/EC accounts (confirmed transferable)
• Existing customer base and department store/local company trading relationships

Strengths (as the seller states them)

• Locally recognised confectionery brand with an existing customer base
• Established trading relationships with department stores and local companies
• Combines individual retail sales with corporate supply, spreading revenue sources
• Small-scale production allows flexible, fresh, made-to-order output including gift items

Wrinkles a careful buyer would ask about

• Business is currently loss-making (営業利益赤字) and detailed financials are not disclosed without membership
• Recently taken over, small team, so retaining staff and manufacturing know-how is critical
• Seasonal gift and event demand means cash flow varies between busy and slow periods
• Buyer should verify key client contracts, past sales trends, bank relationships and equipment condition
• Interest-bearing debt and other balance sheet details are hidden pending member registration

Paying for it

If you stay overseas. No Japanese bank will lend to a new company whose director lives abroad. The realistic stack is your own cash plus asking the owner to take part of the price over 2 to 3 years. That one question is in every Deal Pack.

If you move to Japan. On a visa that lets you run a business, Japan Finance Corporation lends up to ¥72M at about 1 to 2 percent for exactly this. Once you have a Japanese company, the government pays two-thirds of due diligence and registered-broker costs, up to about ¥8M (round 16 closes 6 Nov 2026). The company's existing bank relationship comes with it.

What this listing says. The asking price is listed as a nominal ¥1, but the business is currently operating at a loss and figures on debt, cash and net assets are not disclosed until the buyer registers as a member; the text says nothing specific about loan guarantees, instalment payment terms or broker fees.

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