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LITALICO Partners is a company with the vision of "creating a society without disabilities." It provides comprehensive services supporting people with disabilities and their families. The company operates employment support and developmental support services across more than 230 locations nationwide, combining physical service delivery with digital platform operations to reach more people with high-quality services. The company is also expanding into general education, including programming education.

The company's primary customers are people with mental or developmental disabilities, their families, and disability welfare service providers. Revenue is primarily generated through public funding based on Japan's Disability Comprehensive Support Law and Child Welfare Law, establishing a stable business model that receives compensation from government agencies. While some operations generate private revenue from user out-of-pocket payments, public funding represents the majority of revenue, making the business less susceptible to economic fluctuations.

The business is divided into four main segments. LITALICO Works provides employment transition support for people with disabilities, while LITALICO Junior offers therapeutic services for children with developmental disabilities. LITALICO Platform operates information portal sites related to developmental disabilities and employment support, and also provides support services for disability welfare providers. Other operations include LITALICO Wonder, which offers programming education, and life planning services for families with disabled children, creating a diverse business portfolio that broadly covers the disability support sector.

LITALICO Partners is building comprehensive solutions for the disability sector centered on internet platforms as a core pillar of its medium to long-term strategy, under the vision of "creating a society without barriers to disability." The company continues to expand existing store-based services through LITALICO Works and LITALICO Junior, while simultaneously delivering services to a broad range of stakeholders—individuals with disabilities, families, and disability welfare facilities—through three digital platforms: LITALICO Hattatsu Navi, LITALICO Shigoto Navi, and LITALICO Career.

As a priority investment area, the company is actively pursuing revenue diversification. To move away from its current structure where LITALICO Works accounts for 47.6% of sales, it is expanding into general education through LITALICO Wonder and enhancing operational support services for disability welfare facilities. Additionally, LITALICO Life provides life planning support for families with children with disabilities, positioning expansion beyond traditional disability services as a differentiation strategy.

In new market development, the company continues stable expansion of its existing 235 store locations while focusing on growth in internet platform operations. To meet customer demand for high-quality information on developmental and mental disabilities, it is improving information comprehensiveness and expanding functionality across platforms, contributing to overall industry quality improvement. Simultaneously, it is strengthening cross-business collaboration to provide consistent support from early childhood through adulthood, leveraging its strength in offering one-stop services aligned with life stages.

Regarding technological innovation, the company has promoted digital transformation responsive to environmental changes, including launching online service delivery in response to COVID-19. It also continues investing in curriculum and teaching material development for each business line to standardize and improve service quality across multiple locations, supporting consistent service delivery standards across all facilities from a technological perspective.