Septeni Holdings, the Tokyo-listed digital marketing group, told the Tokyo Stock Exchange on September 24, 2026 that its board had approved a plan to buy all 954,900 shares of Media House Holdings, a Shinjuku-based recruitment and web-marketing firm, for a total ¥10.84bn. The price splits into ¥10.78bn for the stock itself and about ¥57mn in advisory fees. Septeni currently owns none of Media House Holdings; after the deal it plans to hold all of it.
Getting to 100% is not guaranteed on day one. Two shareholders, HK Co., which holds 24.7% of Media House Holdings, and an individual who serves as HK Co.'s representative director and as Media House Holdings' president and CEO, who holds a further 16.5% in his own name, together hold 43.1% of the target's voting rights. Under the terms disclosed, they are under a best-efforts obligation to round up the remaining shares, including a 20.7% stake held by the company's own employee shareholding association, before the transfer date. If that full sweep does not happen, the deal still goes through provided the selling group has gathered at least two-thirds of the shares outstanding; Septeni plans to squeeze out whoever is left to reach full ownership. The share-transfer agreement was planned for signature the same day as the board vote, with execution targeted for November 4, 2026.
Media House Holdings, founded in 1983, runs a recruitment-support business alongside a web-marketing operation, with a client base weighted toward small and midsize employers, and has drawn strong external recognition for its job-listing aggregation media. Its numbers have been climbing: revenue rose from ¥8.22bn in the nine months to December 2023 (a stub period following a fiscal-year change) to ¥11.38bn in the year to December 2024 and ¥14.50bn in the year to December 2025, with operating profit up from ¥530mn to ¥648mn over that span. Net income, however, jumped far more sharply, to ¥2.02bn in the latest year from ¥399mn the year before, a gap the disclosure does not explain. The per-share dividend rose in step, from ¥100 to ¥500.
| Metric | 9 months to Dec 2023 | Year to Dec 2024 | Year to Dec 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | ¥8.22bn | ¥11.38bn | ¥14.50bn |
| Operating profit | ¥530mn | ¥577mn | ¥648mn |
| Net income | ¥388mn | ¥399mn | ¥2.02bn |
| Dividend per share | ¥60 | ¥100 | ¥500 |
Septeni's pitch for the deal rests on a market call: Japan's operating job-advertising segment is forecast to grow at roughly 20% a year and take over half of the domestic job-ad market by around 2030, a trend Septeni ties to a structural labor shortage pushing up hiring demand. Septeni, which started in 1990 as a recruitment-consulting business before building its current digital-advertising operation, frames the purchase as the opening move in an HR-marketing push under its medium-term plan covering the years through 2028.
Septeni said the deal's effect on its own results for the year ending December 2026 will be minor. It has not yet issued guidance for the following year, saying that forecast is still under review and will be published alongside its full-year results in February 2027.