What 富山県庁 does

Toyama Prefecture Government Employees' Cooperative Association (富山県庁職員生活協同組合), commonly branded as 富山県庁生協, is a member-owned workplace cooperative (職域生協) organized under Japan's Cooperative Law. Founded on October 2, 1997, and headquartered on the premises of the Toyama Prefectural Government Workers' Union Hall (県職労会館) at 3-2 Shin-Sōgawa, Toyama City, the cooperative serves approximately 6,953 members as of March 31, 2017, all of whom are Toyama Prefecture government employees and their families. Membership is simultaneously shareholding, usage, and operational participation, reflecting the cooperative's mutual-aid (協同互助) governance model.

The cooperative operates three business lines: a supply business (供給事業) running an in-house convenience shop (売店), a network of designated partner stores (指定店), and a joint purchasing program (共同購入); a utilization business (利用事業) comprising a member cafeteria (食堂) and a travel center (旅行センター); and an insurance business (保険事業) offering life and casualty insurance products, supported by a wholly-owned subsidiary called 県庁せいきょうサポート. Distribution is exclusively physical and member-restricted, with access gated by a member login system on its website (ck-toyama.jp). The underlying technology footprint is minimal: a static informational site plus a member portal, with no disclosed APIs, integrations, or digital products.

The business model is a closed-loop member welfare operation rather than a commercial enterprise. Revenue derives from member purchases at the shop and cafeteria, commissions on travel bookings and joint-purchasing orders, and insurance brokerage commissions, with no external customers, no external funding, and no publicly traded securities. The cooperative does not disclose revenue, has no parent company, and is not venture-backed; control rests collectively with its members through cooperative governance structures.

Name

富山県庁

Legal name

富山県庁職員生活協同組合

Website

https://ck-toyama.jp

Company type

Private

Founded year

1997

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Toyama Prefecture Government Employees' Cooperative Association (富山県庁職員生活協同組合) is a member-owned workplace cooperative, founded 1997, providing retail, cafeteria, travel, and insurance services exclusively to ~6,953 Toyama Prefecture government employees and their families.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Toyama City (富山市)

HQ country

Japan

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Supply Chain, Infrastructure, Others

Distribution channels1 record

Core offering

富山県庁職員生活協同組合 is a workplace cooperative (職域生協) that supplies goods and welfare services to Toyama Prefecture Government employees and their families. It operates retail shops, designated partner stores, joint purchasing, a member cafeteria, a travel center, and life and casualty insurance products, and runs a wholly-owned subsidiary for insurance support.

Product overview

富山県庁職員生活協同組合 is a single unified cooperative organization providing employee welfare services to Toyama Prefecture government employees. The organization offers a portfolio of services including retail operations (convenience stores, designated stores, and joint purchasing), food services (cafeteria), travel arrangements, and insurance products. The cooperative operates as a member-owned organization established in 1997 with approximately 6,953 members.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Retail shop (売店 / 供給事業 売店)

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Emerging players

• リロクラブ: Provider of membership-based employee perk programs (lodging, leisure, daily-life discounts) used by companies across Japan. Adjacent to the cooperative's retail/travel member-discount offerings from a private-sector welfare platform perspective.
• ベネフィット・ワン: Listed operator of a digital employee-benefits marketplace providing discount, travel, and lifestyle programs to corporate customers. Relevant as a contemporary substitute for the workplace-cooperative model, particularly where members may access alternative benefit platforms.

Direct peers

• 大阪府職員生活協同組合: Direct counterpart to the Toyama Prefectural Employees Cooperative, organized under Japan's Cooperative Law to serve Osaka Prefecture government employees with retail, food, travel, and insurance welfare services. Most structurally comparable entity.
• 京都府庁職員生活協同組合: Kyoto Prefecture employees' cooperative with the same member-only workplace cooperative structure and welfare offering (retail, food, travel, insurance). Closely aligned with Toyama in legal scope and operational model.
• 北海道職員生活協同組合: Workplace cooperative for Hokkaido Prefecture employees providing analogous welfare services. Same legal form (職域生協 under Cooperative Law), similar product mix, making it a directly comparable peer in scale and scope.
• 愛知県職員生活協同組合: Workplace cooperative serving Aichi Prefecture government employees with a similar mix of welfare services — shop, cafeteria, travel, and insurance. Same legal form and operational model as the Toyama entity.

Broad incumbents

• 国家公務員共済組合: Broader incumbent in government-employee welfare: a national mutual aid association that covers national civil servants and operates insurance, lodging, dining, and retail services. Larger scope (national workforce) but materially similar cooperative-style welfare offering.
• 東京都職員共済組合: Mutual aid society for Tokyo Metropolitan Government employees offering insurance, medical, and welfare facilities — a larger urban counterpart covering similar services for a local government workforce.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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