July 16, 2009
To whom it may concern:
5-2-1 Daizawa, Setagaya Ward, TokyoTOHO HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
(Tokyo Stock Exchange Securities Code: 8129)
Norio Hamada, President and CEO
contact:
Katsuya Kato
Corporate Officer and General Manager ofCorporate Communications Office(TEL: 03-5259-9520)

Notice of the Business Integration of Three Subsidiaries
TOHO HOLDINGS CO., LTD. is pleased to announce that it has decided to make its subsidiaries Nextit ResearchInstitute, Inc. (Headquarters: Kobe, Hyogo) and ABC Running Inc. (Headquarters: Shibuya-ward, Tokyo) its wholly
owned subsidiaries and subsequently to make both these wholly owned subsidiaries merge with its subsidiary SN
Informationsystems Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Toshima-ku, Tokyo) through an absorption-type merger by the surviving
company Nextit Research Institute, Inc.
1. Purpose of the Business Merger
The three companies above involved in the business merger this time are engaged mainly in the development and salesof the “customer support systems” that are the main characteristic of the TOHO Group. This business merger aims tostrengthen marketing capabilities through the improvement of business efficiency and the reinforcement of businessbases resulting from business integration.
2. Schedule of the Reorganization
The end of July 2009
Making Nextit Research Institute, Inc. and ABC Running Inc. wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Company
From the beginning of August 2009 to the end of August 2009
Conclusion of an agreement on a business merger of three companies whereby Nextit Research Institute, Inc.
will be the surviving company, and its approval by meetings of each company’s shareholders.
October 1, 2009
Business merger date (planned)
3. Outline of Companies(1)Company name(2) Corporate
representative(3) Principal place ofbusiness(4) Establishment(5) Main business contents(6) Fiscal year end(7) Capital(8) Number of shares issued(9) Major shareholders(10) Net sales(FY2009)(11) Employees(As of March 2009)

Surviving company
Nextit Research Institute, Inc.
Nobuo Nagata

Merging company
ABC RUNNING Inc.
Hikaru Hatta

Merging company
SN Informationsystems Co., Ltd.
Katsuya Kato

85-1 Edo-machi, Chuo Ward,
Kobe City, Hyogo
September 28, 1977
Research and development,
sales and maintenance ofsoftware

1-2-4 Jingu-mae, Shibuya
Ward, Tokyo
December 12, 2003
Data processing and sales ofdata processing equipment

March 31
20 million yen
20,000 share(name)（share）
TOHO HOLDINGS CO.,LTD
97.0 %March 3150 million yen
1,000 share(name)（share）
TOHO HOLDINGS CO.,LTD
80.0 %

3-13-2 Higashi-ikebukuro,
Toshima Ward, Tokyo
July 5, 1990
Sales and maintenance ofsoftware, computers andperipheral equipment forpharmacies and medical
institutions
March 31
100 million yen
2,000 share(name)（share）
TOHO HOLDINGS CO., LTD
100.0 %

591 million yen

421 million yen

208 million yen

28（regular employees）

9（regular employees）

11（regular employees）

４．Effects of consolidation(1)Company name

Nextit Research Institute, Inc.

(2) Business contents

Research and development, sales and maintenance of software(3) Principal place of business85-1 Edo-machi, Chuo Ward, Kobe City, Hyogo(4) Corporate representative

Hikaru Hatta President(5) Capital

20 million yen (No increase in capital due to consolidation)(6) Fiscal year end

March 31
Impacts from this consolidation on the Company’s consolidated operating
results are insignificant.

(7) Outlook

5. Officers of the new company after the merger (scheduled)
Representative Director and President: Hikaru Hatta （ABC RUNNING Inc. Representative Director and President）
Representative Director and Deputy President: Nobuo Nagata（Nextit Research Institute, Inc. Representative Director and President）
Director:
Takashi Kubo（Nextit Research Institute, Inc. Executive Managing Director）
Director:
Masatoshi Kohno（Nextit Research Institute, Inc. Director）
Director (Part-time): Yasuyoshi Iwamoto（ALF Inc. Representative Director and President）
Director (Part-time): Toru Takahashi (Toho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. Customer support division Senior Manager)
Director (Part-time): Katsuya Kato(TOHO HOLDINGS CO., LTD. Corporate Officer / Toho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. Director)
Auditor (Part-time): Hiroshi Sato (TOHO HOLDINGS CO., LTD. Part-time Auditor)
Auditor (Part-time): Mitsuo Morikubo(TOHO HOLDINGS CO., LTD. Corporate Officer / Toho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. Executive Managing Director)