Social "Konkatsu" Site, IBJ To Go Public On JASDAQ / Venture Now

Social Konkatsu, or marriage hunting service operator, IBJ is approved for IPO on JASDAQ from Osaka Securities Exchange, which is planned on December 6th.

IBJ was founded on February, 2006 running several matchmaking related services and life design media services centered on social marriage hunting support site, BridalNet and matchmaking party search site, RUSH. ...

The revenue ending December, 2011 is 1.8 billion yen with 181 million yen of pretax profit.

Venture Now 11/2/2012 [jp]

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• IBJ has a bit complicated history. BridalNet was launched in 2000 as the first marriage information service in Japan. In 2003, Yahoo Japan acquired 100% shares of the company. In 2006, the management became independent as IBJ. In 2009, IBJ merged BridalNet.
• http://www.ibjapan.jp/