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KYUDEN Holdings Plans 474 Million New Shares to Take Over Kyushu Electric Power

A company that does not yet legally exist plans to issue 474.2 million shares to become Kyushu Electric Power's parent, and its own filing calls the ¥503.7bn price tag on the deal unconfirmed.

Aug 3, 20262 min read
Illustration of a small abstract share-certificate shape stacked above a larger one, linked by faint lines, with soft power transmission towers in the background, representing a new holding company forming above an electric utility.

Kyushu Electric Power's plan to reorganize under a new holding company took another procedural step on August 3, 2026, when the not-yet-incorporated entity KYUDEN Holdings Inc. filed an amended securities registration statement covering the reorganization and planned listing, marked as the third submission of the document. As of the filing date, KYUDEN Holdings has no legal existence: the filing itself states the company is unestablished and that incorporation is planned for October 1, 2026.

The filing sets out how many shares the future holding company expects to issue. KYUDEN Holdings plans to issue 474,183,951 ordinary shares and 2,000 Class B preferred shares, a combined 474,185,951 new shares.

KYUDEN Holdings: Key Filing Figures
Figures from the amended securities registration statement filed August 3, 2026; the registered offering amount is explicitly noted in the filing as unconfirmed.
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New ordinary shares planned474,183,951 shares
New Class B preferred shares planned2,000 shares
Total new shares planned474,185,951 shares
Registered offering amount¥503.7bn (unconfirmed as of the filing date)
Planned board composition7 male, 3 female officers (30% female)
Filing officeFukuoka Local Finance Bureau

The registered offering amount attached to the filing is ¥503.7bn (503,706 million yen), and the document is explicit that the figure is not final. It states the amount is unconfirmed as of the filing date and is calculated from Kyushu Electric Power's book-value shareholders' equity as of March 31, 2026, minus the issuance price of the Class B preferred shares. The new parent's price tag, in other words, is being backed into from the operating utility's balance sheet rather than fixed by a transaction.

The filing also discloses governance detail for the planned holding company. Its directors and other officers are set to number seven men and three women, a 30% female ratio. It names an incoming representative director and president, but only in Japanese script in the cover-page fields reviewed for this article; no English-language rendering of that name appears in those fields. The statement was submitted to the Fukuoka Local Finance Bureau, and lists a Kyushu Electric Power corporate-strategy staffer as the contact for inquiries about it.

What the reviewed filing excerpt does not spell out is the exchange mechanics: how Kyushu Electric Power shares convert into KYUDEN Holdings shares, or a confirmed listing venue and date for the new company. Those terms sit elsewhere in the statement, and readers should treat the ¥503.7bn figure as a placeholder until KYUDEN Holdings itself exists.