TB Group

What TB Group does

TB Group Inc. is a Tokyo-headquartered, Tokyo Stock Exchange Standard Section-listed (TYO: 6775) Japanese manufacturer founded in 1946 that operates two business segments: LED & ECO (LED displays, digital signage, and DOOH advertising media) and SA / Store Automation (electronic cash registers, touch-panel POS terminals, and self-checkout systems). Its product portfolio spans indoor and outdoor LED vision (ecoRea, Tower Gate, BRID, Avant, Ad×Mado transparent, Adrich), a full register/POS line (Smart REGI, TOUCH REGI, PROSPER), and self-checkout innovations (CashHive, CashHive CLOUD, Gacha Regi GR-1, Varie), supported by proprietary PC tools (LED Soft Remote, Regi-Sapo Jr.) and a recurring cloud subscription platform (GO! SERVICE / GO! DX).

The company monetizes through hardware sales (LED displays and POS systems) distributed primarily via its nationwide Towa Network dealer channel (TB-G FORUM) and group subsidiaries (Towa Co., M Visual Chunanichi), supplemented by a DOOH advertising business via owned outdoor LED media (Share Time Vision), subscription/cloud services for store DX, and emerging adjacent revenue from capsule accommodation (Mayudama Clean, with Nihon Airtec) and health tech/medical tourism (Smart Health Net). Customers include fragmented SMB retail and food-service operators, large venues and event organizers (notably the Tokyo 2025 Deaflympics), and railway/hospitality clients. Subsidiary structure includes wholly-owned Towa Co., Smart Health Net, Mayudama Co., M Visual Chunanichi, and related Hospital Net Corporation.

Name

TB Group

Legal name

株式会社TBグループ

Website

https://tb-group.co.jp

Company type

Public

Founded year

1946

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

TB Group is a 78-year-old Japanese public manufacturer (TYO: 6775) producing LED displays, digital signage, and electronic cash registers/POS systems, sold primarily through its nationwide Towa Network dealer channel to SMB retail, food-service, and event-venue customers across Japan.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Hongo

HQ country

Japan

HQ region

Asia

Offices8 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Hardware Product Sales (LED Displays and POS Systems): TB Group's primary revenue stream from the manufacture and sale of LED display systems (indoor/outdoor digital signage, LED message boards) and store automation equipment (electronic cash registers, touch-panel POS terminals, self-checkout systems). Products are sold through distributors, dealers, and directly. Revenue is recognized at point of hardware delivery.
2. Subscription / Cloud Services (GO! SERVICE): Recurring subscription cloud service for store digital transformation (DX), providing remote management, monitoring, and support for connected LED displays and POS systems. Offered as GO! SERVICE / GO! DX platform.
3. DOOH Advertising Revenue: Digital Out-of-Home advertising business utilizing TB Group's owned LED vision outdoor media inventory. The company operates DOOH advertising through Share Time Vision, a shared screen-time model launched in February 2023.
4. Cloud-Based Self-Checkout (CashHive CLOUD): Cloud-connected self-checkout system with subscription or usage-based pricing for retail store deployment.
5. Professional Services and Rental: Rental and service revenue from group companies including Towa (registers, POS systems, LED displays for sale and rental) and M Visual Chunanichi (LED displays and digital signage sales/rental).

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

TB Group manufactures and sells LED display systems (indoor and outdoor digital signage, message boards) and store automation hardware (electronic cash registers, touch-panel POS terminals, and self-checkout systems) under its LED & ECO Business and SA (Store Automation) Business segments. The company distributes through a nationwide dealer network (Towa Network/TB-G FORUM) and offers recurring cloud services (GO! SERVICE) for remote management of deployed devices.

Product overview

TB Group operates as a comprehensive retail technology solutions provider with two main business segments: LED & ECO Business and SA (Store Automation) Business. The LED & ECO Business encompasses LED vision displays, digital signage products (including BRID series, Avant series, and transparent LED displays like Ad X Mado), and LED lighting/illumination products. The SA Business includes POS systems and electronic cash registers (Smart REGI, TOUCH REGI, and PROSPER series), self-checkout systems (CashHive), and specialty register products (Gacha Regi). The company also offers subscription cloud services (GO! Service) for store DX transformation and various support tools. Products range from compact single-color LED displays to large-scale outdoor LED vision systems, and from entry-level registers to high-performance POS terminals with touch interfaces.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Vision City: LED vision specialized site for LED displays developed and manufactured by TB Group
• RegiCity
• GO!サービス
• TOWA GLOBAL MARKET

Products and services

• POS Systems / Electronic Cash Registers Point-of-sale systems and electronic cash registers including Smart REGI series (SX-150, SX-550), TOUCH REGI series (iTR, FT), and PROSPER NR series for retail and food service operators in Japan.
• LED Vision Displays / Digital Signage LED display products for indoor and outdoor digital signage, advertising, and information display, including EcoRea, Tower Gate, Avant, SUPER ECORea, and BRID series, plus see-through LED panels (Ad×Mado! 2, Adrich).
• Gacha Regi GR-1 Self-Checkout Kiosk Gashapon-style self-checkout vending system supporting cashless payments, deployed in retail environments to address labor shortages.
• CashHive Self-Checkout System Self-service checkout system for retail environments with cloud-connected (CashHive CLOUD) variant offering remote management and self-order functionality.
• GO! SERVICE / GO! DX Cloud Platform Recurring subscription cloud service supporting store digital transformation, providing remote management and monitoring of connected LED displays and POS systems.
• DOOH Outdoor Advertising (Share Time Vision / GO! VISION) Digital Out-of-Home advertising business operating TB Group's owned LED vision outdoor media inventory, including a shared screen-time model for brand messaging.
• Varie Multi-Purpose Self-Terminal Location-free, multi-purpose self-terminal designed for flexible deployment in various retail and service environments.
• TOUCH REGI iTR-1 POS Terminal High-performance POS terminal with touchscreen interface for retail operations.
• TOUCH REGI FT-800II POS Terminal Compact POS terminal integrating keyboard and printer, designed for retail environments.
• See-Through LED Display (Ad×Mado! 2) Transparent LED display for see-through window applications that displays content while preserving visibility through the glass.
• Mayudama Clean Capsule Accommodation Capsule accommodation units with built-in high-performance clean air system for virus protection, jointly developed with Nihon Airtec, produced by TB Group subsidiary Mayudama Co.

Quantifiable outcome

• Top market share in outdoor digital signage in Japan
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature10 records

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered minor, significant and core.

• Glory Ltd. (グローリー株式会社)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 4 February 2026TB Group provided technology cooperation and a content delivery system for Glory's 'Signage Locker' advertising demonstration experiment — a coin locker unit with LED panels on the locker doors.
• Glory Ltd. (グローリー株式会社)significantStrategic or Co-development Partner · 19 July 2021TB Group's POS terminal FT-800P was selected for integration into Glory's REGIX subscription service — the industry's first subscription service for retail automation equipment. This partnership enables Glory's REGIX subscribers to use TB Group's POS hardware as part of a managed subscription offering.
• NEC Corporation (日本電気株式会社)significantGTM or Marketing Partner · 2 March 2018TB Group (Towa) and NEC jointly developed and co-sell a tablet POS system combining TB Group's iSAPPOS docking station with NEC's tablet hardware and software, targeting the growing tablet POS market in Japan.
• Towa Co., Ltd. (株式会社TOWA)coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorTowa is TB Group's main sales subsidiary handling the sale and rental of registers, POS systems, LED displays, and digital signage. It operates TB-G FORUM (formerly Towa Forum), TB Group's nationwide dealer network.
• Smart Health Net Corporation (株式会社スマートヘルスネット)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerTB Group 100% subsidiary operating health tech DX strategy business development and sales. Registered as a travel agency and entered medical tourism business in 2023.
• M Visual Chunanichi Co., Ltd. (株式会社Mビジュアル中日本)minorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorRegional sales and rental company for LED displays and digital signage, serving the Chubu (Nagoya) region.
• Mayudama Co., Ltd. (MAYU DAMA株式会社)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerTB Group 100% subsidiary operating capsule hotels and selling capsule beds. Developed Mayudama Clean capsule accommodation units with high-performance clean air systems jointly with Nihon Airtec.
• Hospital Net Corporation (株式会社ホスピタルネット)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerRelated company providing hospital information systems and digital signage solutions for medical facilities.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• NEC Corporation: NEC is a large Japanese IT vendor with POS, retail solutions, and communications equipment lines — co-developing a tablet POS with TB Group's Towa subsidiary while also serving as a competitor in larger enterprise retail deployments.
• Sharp Corporation: Sharp is a major Japanese electronics conglomerate with a commercial display and POS solutions business that competes with TB Group's LED vision and SA segments. Much larger scale and broader portfolio make it an incumbent threat rather than a direct SMB-focused peer.
• Panasonic Corporation: Panasonic manufactures professional LED displays, digital signage, and electronic systems — competing with TB Group in outdoor LED signage while operating across a vastly broader industrial and consumer electronics portfolio.
• Mitsubishi Electric Corporation: Mitsubishi Electric produces large-format display systems, LED walls, and factory automation products that overlap with TB Group's LED vision business. A diversified industrial conglomerate with much greater scale and R&D resources.
• Toshiba GlobalCommerce Solutions: Toshiba GCS is a global leader in enterprise POS solutions for retail and hospitality — competing with TB Group's POS offerings at the enterprise end of the market while TB Group focuses on Japanese SMBs.

Regional players

• LG Electronics (Commercial Displays): LG is a leading global manufacturer of commercial LED displays and digital signage, comparable in product category to TB Group's LED vision portfolio but primarily serving global markets rather than Japan. A scale and geography-differentiated competitor.

Direct peers

• Casio Computer Co., Ltd. Casio manufactures electronic cash registers and POS terminals for retail and food service in Japan, directly overlapping with TB Group's Smart REGI and TOUCH REGI product lines. Comparable mid-market SMB channel presence.
• Glory Ltd. Glory is a Japanese manufacturer of cash handling, POS, and store automation equipment — directly competing with TB Group's POS/register business and also serving as a strategic partner via the REGIX subscription service integration. Closest like-for-like competitor in Japanese SMB POS.
• Star Micronics Co., Ltd. Star Micronics produces POS peripherals (thermal printers, mechanisms) widely used alongside POS systems like TB Group's TOUCH REGI and PROSPER. Adjacent POS hardware vendor with overlapping end customers in retail POS deployments.

Emerging players

• Dai Nippon Printing (DNP): DNP operates a digital signage and information distribution business in Japan, partially overlapping with TB Group's LED displays and DOOH offerings. A larger diversified printing conglomerate extending into adjacent digital signage verticals.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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• Xx.com/RetailTb

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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