| The Previous IID | The New IID (formerly IRI-CT) | ||
| 1990 | Oct:IID begins as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nissan Motors. It is a design management & consulting company with a foundation in marketing research. | 1990 | |
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| 1993 | Jul:To conduct research in the United States, Interface in Design is established there as a corporation. | 1993 | |
| 1996 | May:To create an infrastructure for research, Research Network is established as a corporation in Japan. | 1996 | |
| 1997 | IID’s Internet Research division is created. | 1997 | |
| 1999 | The Usability Consulting division is established. Jul: A merger is concluded with Fina Research, a company specializing in large-scale quantitative research. |
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| 2000 | 2000 | Apr:On the 28th, IRI Commerce & Technology (IRI-CT) is established as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Internet Research Institute Inc. with 100 million yen in capital. Dec:The rights to broadband news site RBB TODAY are acquired from Point Five Communications Ltd. and oversight begins. |
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| 2001 | Nov:IID becomes independent from Nissan through a management buyout. | 2001 | Jun:IRI-CT headquarters is relocated to Nishi-Shinjuku in Tokyo, along with the parent company. |
| 2002 | 2002 | Oct:A change of management takes place. Hiroshi Fujiwara becomes Chairman of the Board of Directors. Hiroshi Miyakawa becomes President and CEO. Daizo Kugi and Masahiko Nakajima become Directors. Nov: The rights to automotive news site Auto ASCII are acquired from Media Leaves Inc. (formerly ASCII Corporation), and oversight of operations begins. |
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| 2003 | 2003 | Apr:New shares of IRI-CT stock worth 90 million yen are allocated to IRI-CT executives. Capital is increased to 190 million yen. Management hold 47.4%. Oct:Automotive news site Auto ASCII is renamed Response. |
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| 2004 | Apr:To strengthen IID’s core business, a merger is concluded with Research Network, Inc May:Business partnerships establitshed with several major US internet research firms. Jun:InterfaceASIA begins, a service that conducts research on Asian countries for clients in Western countries, strengthening global integrated consulting services. |
2004 | May:New shares of IRI-CT stock are allocated to Sumitomo Corporation (20 million capital increase, 20 million capital reserve). Capital becomes 210 million yen. Sumitomo Corporation holds 9.5% of IRI-CT. Aug:New shares of IRI-CT stock are allocated to Internet Research Institute Inc. (80 million capital increase, 80 million capital reserve). Capital becomes 290 million yen. Internet Research Institute Inc. holds 62.1% of IRI-CT. |
| 2005 | Aug:New shares of IID stock are allocated to IRI-CT. | 2005 | Sep:New shares of IRI-CT stock are allocated to Internet Research Institute Inc. and others (350.25 million capital increase, 350.25 million capital reserve). Capital becomes 595.025 million yen. Internet Research Institute Inc. holds 77% of IRI-CT. Sep:Through an allocation of new shares by IID, IID becomes a subsidiary of IRI-CT. IRI-CT holds 67.8% of IID. Oct:Synergy System Solutions is acquired. The goal is increasing profits by securing system engineers to do work in-house that was previously outsourced. Nov:Through an allocation of new shares by cbook24.com Inc., cbook24.com Inc. becomes a subsidiary of IRI-CT. IRI-CT holds 54.3% of cbook24.com Inc. |
| 2006 | 2006 | May:The funboo of Digiturbo Co.,LTD. is acquired, giving IRI-CT the Play Toys mobile phone carrier web site, and oversight of operations begins. Aug:IRI-CT assumes management of monoONLINE, the online store of Mono Magazine, published by World Photo Press Co.,LTD. Oversight of operations begins. Oct:The rights are acquired to Marble, an E-commerce ASP business, from Improve Technologies Inc., and oversight of operations begins. |
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| 2007 | Jul:Through an exchange of shares, IID becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary of IRI-CT. | 2007 | Mar:The rights to the independently run gaming news site iNSIDE are acquired, and oversight of operations begins. |
| 2009 | 2009 | Jan:Operations of the gaming news site Game*SPARK are transferred to IRI-CT. Jun:Headquarters is relocated to Nakano in Tokyo. |
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| 2010 | 2010 | May:The Mono Magazine official online store is closed. It’s retail store operation is transferred to Mono Sapience Inc. | |
| Jun:IRI-CT merges with wholly-owned subsidiary IID. The name is changed to IID Incorporated. | |||
