What RIZAP GROUP does

RIZAP GROUP, Inc. (RIZAPグループ株式会社) is a Tokyo-headquartered, publicly traded Japanese holding company that operates a diversified consumer business across three segments: Healthcare and Beauty, Lifestyle, and Investment. The Healthcare and Beauty segment runs the RIZAP personal training gym brand and the chocoZAP self-service convenience gym format, alongside sales of body-correcting underwear, cosmetics, and health foods through wholly-owned subsidiaries including 健康メディカルサービス (Health Medical Service), 健康コミュニケーションズ (Health Communications), and MRK Holdings.

The Lifestyle segment spans retail, reuse/recycling (REXT Holdings), interior goods, apparel and accessories, sports equipment, and entertainment merchandise, operated through subsidiaries such as BRUNO (lifestyle goods), 夢展望 (dreamv, e-commerce), and アンティローザ (Auntie Rosa, fashion). A separate Investment segment houses functional companies that coordinate synergies across the group. The group's go-to-market is direct-to-consumer, primarily through owned physical gym locations and retail storefronts across Japan, supplemented by e-commerce channels.

The company monetizes through a mix of recurring subscription/membership revenue from gym services and one-time product sales across apparel, beauty, and lifestyle merchandise, plus intra-group managed services from the Investment segment. Revenue is generated across the approximately 16 wholly-owned subsidiaries within the corporate umbrella. The firm maintains standard public-company governance with active IR, shareholder meeting, and statutory reporting functions, and operates at a scale consistent with a mid-to-large Japanese consumer conglomerate (1001-5000 employees, Japan-only operating geography).

Name

RIZAP GROUP

Legal name

RIZAPグループ株式会社

Website

https://rizapgroup.com

Company type

Public

Founded year

2003

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Short description

RIZAP GROUP is a Japanese holding company operating the RIZAP personal training gyms, chocoZAP convenience gyms, and a diversified portfolio of lifestyle, beauty, reuse-retail, and apparel brands serving Japanese consumers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Health and Wellness Services

NAICS

Health and Personal Care Retailers (456), Cosmetics, Beauty Supplies, and Perfume Retailers (456120), Clothing and Clothing Accessories Retailers (45811), Food (Health) Supplement Retailers (456191)

SIC

Retail-Apparel & Accessory Stores (5600), Perfumes, Cosmetics & Other Toilet Preparations (2844), Retail-Misc General Merchandise Stores (5399)

akta.pro primary industry

Gym Flooring, Storage & Facility Accessories Retail (Mats, Tiles, Racks, Mirrors) (CRAMADAJ)

Keywords

• Personal training services
• Fitness and beauty
• Lifestyle retail
• Convenience gyms
• Health and wellness

Headquarters

HQ city

Shinjuku

HQ country

Japan

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Healthcare/Beauty Business: Operations of personal training gyms (RIZAP) and convenience store gyms (chocoZAP), sales of body-correcting underwear, beauty-related products, cosmetics, and health food products. This is a multi-channel consumer business with both service (gym memberships) and product (merchandise) revenue streams.
2. Lifestyle Business: Retail sales of entertainment products, reuse/secondhand store operations, interior goods, apparel and accessories, sports goods planning, development, manufacturing and sales.
3. Investment Business: Functional companies supporting synergies within the group, aiming for stable revenue generation through group company coordination.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

RIZAP GROUP is a Japanese holding company that operates personal training gyms under the RIZAP brand and convenience-store-style gyms under the chocoZAP brand. The group also sells body-correcting underwear, beauty products, cosmetics, health foods, apparel, interior goods, entertainment merchandise, and operates reuse/recycling retail stores through its subsidiaries.

Product overview

RIZAP GROUP is a diversified Japanese conglomerate operating three main business segments: Healthcare and Beauty (including RIZAP personal training gyms and chocoZAP convenience gyms, plus body shaping and beauty products), Lifestyle (retail, reuse business, apparel, and sports goods through subsidiaries like BRUNO and REXT Holdings), and Investment (synergy support functions across group companies). The company is organized as a platform-plus-subsidiaries model with multiple subsidiaries providing complementary services across health, lifestyle, and investment domains.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• RIZAP (ライザップ): Personal training gym brand offering specialized fitness programs
• chocoZAP

Products and services

• RIZAP (ライザップ) Personal Training Gym

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• FASTGYM24 (Fast Fitness Japan): Japanese 24-hour, no-frills fitness chain. Directly comparable domestic competitor to chocoZAP in Japan in terms of format, price point and target demographic.
• Anytime Fitness: Global 24-hour convenience-gym franchise operating small-box, accessible-format gyms. Highly comparable to chocoZAP's low-cost, 24/7, convenience-gym positioning and target consumer.
• Gold's Gym: Iconic global personal-training and bodybuilding gym brand. Comparable to RIZAP's premium personal-training positioning and body-transformation brand identity.
• Curves International: Women's-focused fitness franchise with small-format, 30-minute circuit training. Comparable to RIZAP's body-shaping and women-focused member base and gym-format.

Broad incumbents

• Konami Holdings: Japanese conglomerate that, among other businesses, operates sports clubs and fitness facilities. Comparable as a broad incumbent with overlapping fitness operations in the Japanese market.
• Planet Fitness: Largest low-cost fitness chain in the US. Comparable to chocoZAP as a mass-market, low-price-point gym operator; broader incumbent with significantly larger scale.
• Equinox Holdings: Premium fitness club operator with lifestyle and wellness brand extensions. Comparable to RIZAP's premium training positioning and adjacent beauty/lifestyle product extensions.

Others

• Shiseido: Major Japanese beauty and cosmetics company. Comparable as a domestic peer for RIZAP's beauty/cosmetics revenue stream within the Healthcare & Beauty segment.
• Fast Retailing (Uniqlo): Largest Japanese apparel retailer. Comparable for RIZAP's Lifestyle apparel business and overall Japanese consumer-retail exposure, although not a fitness competitor.
• Ryohin Keikaku (MUJI): Japanese lifestyle and interior goods retailer. Comparable to RIZAP's Lifestyle segment (interior goods, lifestyle products) and its Japan retail-consumer positioning.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/rizap_jp

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Subsidiaries17 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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