In April Technomart expanded its branches to five. Additional locations in Japan including Aomori, Fukui and Mie Prefecture. This will bring to eleven the total number of branches, including the previously established branches in Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Hamamatsu, Kumamoto, and Toyama. Saitama, Nagasaki and Kagoshima are expected to be added in Japan near future. Twelve computer makers in Japan are rushing completion of search function software for the Technomart system which currently lists its market information on a central computer in Tokyo.
Users access the data with their own computers on an on-line basis.