Company history
The Company was established through sole share transfer by A.D. Works Co., Ltd. following the shift to a holding company system in April 2020. The company's history from its founding to the present is outlined below.
| April 2020 | A.D. Works established the Company through sole share transfer on April 1, and it was listed on the first section of TSE through a technical listing on the same day. |
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| September 2020 | Established ADW Hawaii LLC to buy and sell, develop, and hold real estate in Hawaii, the US, among other functions |
| October 2020 | Acquired Real Estate Broker license |
| December 2020 | Changed the name of Smartmoney Investment Co., Ltd. to Angel Torch Co., Ltd. to enter the corporate venture capital business |
| December 2020 | Established Jupiter Funding Co., Ltd. to use crowd funding and other methods to raise money |
| May 2021 | Released the First Medium-term Management Plan, the first plan since switching to a holding company structure |
| September 2021 | Formed a Sustainability Committee to contribute to the development of a sustainable society |
The history of A.D. Works, Co., Ltd., which became a fully owned subsidiary of the Company as a result of the sole share transfer on April 1, 2020, from its founding to the present is outlined below.
| May 1936 | Aoki Dyeing Works was established as a corporate organization |
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| August 1976 | Acquired real estate brokerage license and began real estate transaction operations |
| February 1995 | The company name is changed from Aoki Dyeing Works to A.D. Works Co., Ltd. |
| March 1999 | Our business objective was changed from dyeing operations to the sale and purchase of real estate, brokerage, rental management, appraisal, consulting and investment consulting operations. |
| August 1999 | Registered as a real estate appraisal business |
| November 2001 | Registered as a real estate advisory services business |
| December 2005 | Registered as a seller of trust beneficiary rights |
| January 2006 | Registered as a real estate investment advisory business |
| February 2007 | Registered as a first-class architectural office |
| October 2007 | Listed on the JASDAQ Securities Exchange |
| December 2008 | Established A.D. Estate Co., Ltd. as a subsidiary |
| February 2011 | Established A.D. Remodeling Co., Ltd. as a subsidiary |
| April 2013 | Established ADW-No.1 LLC in California, the US, as a subsidiary operating an income property business in the US |
| July 2013 | Succeeded to A.D. Remodeling Co., Ltd. through an absorption-type company split of the Company's property management business, and changed the name to A.D. Partners Co., Ltd. |
| September 2013 | Established ADW Management USA, Inc. in California, the US, as a subsidiary to operate the property management business in the US |
| January 2014 | Launched the A.D. Works Group's owners' club "torch" (currently named "Royaltorch") |
| February 2015 | Obtained a business permit under the Real Estate Specified Joint Enterprise Act |
| February 2015 | Established A.D. Works USA, Inc. as a subsidiary to preside over business in California, the US |
| April 2015 | Moved to second section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange |
| October 2015 | Listed on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange |
| September 2016 | Opened Osaka sales office |
| October 2016 | Established Smartmoney Investment Co., Ltd. as a subsidiary with the objective of setting up a matching platform for Small-lot real estate investment products |
| February 2017 | Changed name of A.D. Estate Co., Ltd. to A.D. Designbuild Co., Ltd. as a step in the full-scale expansion of the construction business |
| September 2017 | Launched A.D. Works Shareholder Club (currently the A.D. Works Group Shareholder Club) |
| September 2017 | Completed construction of AD-O Shibuya Dogenzaka, the first office building developed in-house |
| August 2018 | Launched sales of ARISTO Kyoto, our first small-lot real estate investment product |
| October 2018 | AD-O Shibuya Dogenzaka, the first office building developed in-house won the Good Design Award |
| March 2019 | Took over business of Smartmoney Investment Co., Ltd. |
| April 2019 | A.D. Designbuild, our wholly owned subsidiary, acquired all shares of Sumikawa Komuten Co., Ltd., which operates a construction business, and made it a Group company |
| April 2019 | ADW Lending LLC, a subsidiary that operates a housing loans investment business in the US, established in California, the US |
| March 2020 | A.D. Works Group established as a wholly owning parent company following the transition to a holding company structure and delisted due to the Group's technical listing on the first section of the TSE (April 1, 2020) |