33 companies received the award

The Service Productivity & Innovation for Growth (SPRING) runs Japan High-Service Award so that awarding and publicizing of best-practices that leads to innovation and productivity improvement will increase awareness of companies in the service industry and that they would share and introduce the practices. SPRING announced 33 companies that received the third "Japan 300 High-Service Award." All companies challenged the status quo and realized innovation and productivity improvement with creativity and ingenuity.

Two examples of the recipient companies

Honeys Co., Ltd.
CEO: Yoshihisa Ejiri
Established: June 1978
Capital: 3,566,000 Yen
The company specializes in selling apparel products for females in their teens to thirties. The company succeeded in addressing changing trends and diverse demography by establishing 4 brands for different age group, fashion taste. The PSA (Specialty store retailer of Private label Apparel) model of Honeys is called "Honeys model." It is highly integrated vertical model that enables small lot orders and minimize inventory loss. By producing only the replacement inventory, the risk of inventory and discount is minimized. The product line-up can also be kept fresh and based on latest trends.

System Location Co., Ltd.
CEO: Takehiko Chimura
Established: April 1968
Capital: 191,450,000 Yen
The company develops and operates the marketplace to trade autos returned for auto leasing companies. The company also has proprietary system to calculate residual value of returned cars in scientific and neutral way, based on the data obtained from the operation of the marketplace. The system enabled credible evaluation of returned autos and increased their value. The system also resulted in the development of auto-loans that preset the repurchase price.