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ODI Company, Ltd. The Cutting Edge Supplier to the Japanese Market.
We handle unique, niche-oriented, cutting edge, trend-setting remarkable products from all over the world.
USA products are still the most esteemed in Japan. At ODI we are partial to the products of California. However,
we have imported, marketed, and distributed products from many of the different USA States.
We prefer patented/patent-pending, or proprietary earth-friendly environmental, energy, and health-conscious products and technologies. In general, "cutting edge" well-branded products and new market-ready technologies are our interest for exclusive import into the huge markets of Japan (and in some cases, to the greater Orient).
ODI Company: A rare, new breed of Japanese trading company.
Founded in 1986, by Chairman Shogo Omori (retired), we are a Japanese-owned firm specializing in importing products to the Japanese market. We are definitely the rare pioneers in Japan, setting the new 21st Century style/paradigm shift into action.
Importing products into Japan by traditional methods is extremely difficult for USA firms. For our mutual success,
in 1986 we at ODI introduced a new style of trading company in the Japanese market that has a vigorous entrepreneurial focus in the truest sense of the word.
We eliminate the traditional red tape of the larger trading companies that made it often impossible for USA companies to penetrate the Japanese market.
We supply Japanese distributors and retailers. We also distribute direct to the consumer in many cases.
We have two divisions:
1. ODI Japanese Consumer Products Division and
2. The ODI Japanese Industrial Market Products Division.
Upon request of USA firms we have also exported various remarkable high tech Japanese products to the western world that are remarkably advanced, in the spirit of Japanese technological advancement.
Our forte is recognizing market-ready products that exhibit unique innovation and technical advancement.
We have a long and successful track record of importing and distributing high end, cutting edge products
to the enormous Japanese marketplace:
to Japan chain stores, department stores, supermarkets, to other trading companies, to "drug" stores, mail order catalogs,
and now to the booming on-line retail market in Japan (which, by the way, is exploding faster in Japan than on any other place on earth due to the personality style of the Japanese consumer, the population density, and the omnipresent convenience of internet ordering/buying). We also distribute to the medical, health care, military and marine industries in Japan.
Statistically, products that have proven markets in the USA will do best in Japan. However, that is not always the case---significant potential markets in Japan may exist for products that have limited markets in the USA.
We speak English and Japanese and we are well versed in both business styles related to export/import/distribution.
Our integrity in dealing with USA companies in unquestionable. The ODI business system is about honor, trust, ethics,
and partnership. Our partners are like our family. As importers, we diligently honor and respect all agreements and ensure the security of our client's products because product exclusivity and protection of our distribution channels is in both of our mutual interest for continued prosperity.
In most cases, in return for exclusivity, we handle the gamut of the complex marketing program (with your cooperation)
which includes regulatory and translation issues related to products. This saves you time and eliminates confusion. Selling to the Japanese consumer means presenting the product in a Japanese manner while retaining the ﾒflavorﾓ of the USA uniqueness.
We work in close cooperation with you, our client/partners, and we encourage occasional mutual travels by your firm to
Japan (not required) and we may visit you in the USA if your product is one we feel will be a success in the Japan market.
The internet has eliminated the need for frequent major trans-Pacific visits.
The Gross Domestic Product of Japan is estimated at $5.1 trillion (USD).
The Gross Domestic Product of the United States is estimated at $14.12 trillion (USD). Japan ranks third in the world.
The United States ranks number one.
For comparison, let's take the Osaka Prefecture where our offices are located. (Prefectures are Japanese equivalents of States in the USA).
Greater Osaka encompasses 85.3 square miles with a daytime population of approximately 3.65 million people. The Gross Regional Product of Osaka is $740 billion. In comparison, LA County (at 4750 square miles) is fifty six times the size of Greater Osaka with a Gross Regional Product of $790 Billion.
As is obvious above, Japan is small in area, but chalks up some immense business totals. Exports to Japan from the United States in 2009 totaled approximately $65 billion.
Exclusive Basis Is The Way of Importing In Japan for Successful Marketing.
We deal primarily on an exclusive basis. If you do your research you will find that due to the tradition and nature of the Japan style of business that non-exclusive product distribution in Japan is very risky for us due to the large expense we incur in product marketing. We are selective and astute in whom we partner with in our ventures.
At best, for non-exclusive products, your volume of business may be quite small, as no firm will want to take on the expense and time of marketing new products only to pave the way for other importers. Few, if any importers in Japan (or anywhere) will want to take on that risk, expense, and effort of marketing and distributing a product line on a wide scale basis. Not all USA products are ideal for Japan. However, some USA products do better in Japan than in the USA. Due to the nature of the Japanese consumer and the population density, when an ideal product takes off through our marketing efforts, the results can be remarkable.
Marketing in Japan Can Be Daunting for USA Firms
Marketing in Japan is very expensive and complex for the average firm. We have the rare and appropriate capability to market and also distribute your product in Japan efficiently and sincerely. Products sold into Japan nearly always will require packaging in Japanese and in different sizes to appeal to the Japanese market. We provide that specialized knowledge as part of our services for exclusive products that we take on. Tasks like translation, creation of websites in Japanese, labeling, getting products approved by Japanese regulatory agencies, assisting you in reciprocal trademarking and product protection, and introducing the product in the correct fashion could take an American company years and numerous expensive trips to Japan. Thatﾕs where we streamline the process.
Efficiency Is the Path to Faster Success
At ODI we do our market research and we share that in a loyal, symbiotic fashion with our exclusive USA partners: Japanese-style. We are a diligent, skilled, expedient firm that gives its products focused attention. The mega-size Japanese trading companies cannot give your product the attention that it deserves for success. We import products that we know we can distribute successfully for many years to come. It's a win-win situation.
Contact us to evaluate your cutting edge product with respect to importation into the enormous Japanese market place. Currently, due to the Japan earthquake and Tsunami in Japan, products that will have the most potential are new portable consumer products or industrial products related to health, the environment, products with ergonomic utility designs, energy saving high technology products, and products that are highly branded, patented, of a proprietary nature, but in all cases that are unique and of very high quality.
Unlike other firms we respond quickly and effectively, in English. Contact us if you feel that your product is suitable for Japan. Also, contact us about importing your innovative products and technologies to Japan.
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J-Spex/JSB-1/EP-680 environmental safty cleaner >>> |
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California Health brand suppliments >>> |
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| We are the exclusive distributor of environmental safety cleaners, produced by DIANA INDUSTRIES INTERNATIONAL, INC. (USA). We are the exclusive distributors of DIANA products for other Asian countries as well. We were amongst the very first to meet the huge demand for the highly demanding environmental safety cleaner market for Japan industry, commercial uses, and for private label. |
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We were amongst the first to successfully introduce trendy "Californian" style healthy supplements of the absolute highest quality into the Japan market starting in the 1980's. Our first huge seller, premium "Zink" (TM) is one of fist USA-made top mineral supplements that ODI successfully imported, marketed and widely distributed into the Japan consumer marketplace. We now supply vitamins, minerals, hair conditioners and other USA-made health products. |
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MG&C MiracleGlove >>> |
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| Distributed exclusively by ODI Company, MG&C is an innovative, USA-made, highly documented/highly tested new hand lotion product with new technology twists. A highly tested and documented liquid invisible glove/barrier cream and OTC consumer product with a licensed medical pharmaceutical lotion version, it protects the hands from weather, oil, grime, grease, odors, and chemical attack, and we have found that it virtually eliminates the dry skin problem unlike any other product we have discovered to date. In Japan, skin care and well-being products are a vast business. In addition, one of the MG&C versions is an anti-microbial lotion that is even has the FDA 510K approval. Widely distributed throughout Japan, we handle this product with pride, exclusively. |
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