PRONEXUS' predecessor company, Asia Shokai, was founded in December 1930 as a firm specializing in the printing of securities certificates.
Asia Securities Printing Co., Ltd. was established after the end of World War II in May 1947 under the aspiration to rebuild and further develop the Company's business portfolio. After nearly 60 years of growth and expanding its business, the company was renamed PRONEXUS Inc. on October 1, 2006.
| 1930 | Dec. | Predecessor company Asia Shokai is founded (Chuo Ward, Tokyo) |
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| 1947 | May | Establishes Asia Securities Printing Co., Ltd. to engage in the printing of stock and other securities certificates (Chuo Ward, Tokyo) Kazuo Ueno becomes President and Representative Director |
| 1952 | May | Relocates its head office factory (Minato Ward, Tokyo) |
| 1963 | July | Receives accreditation from each of Japan's stock exchanges as a qualified provider of stock certificate printing services |
| 1968 | Oct. | Makes inroads into the business form sector |
| 1973 | Mar. | Establishes the Osaka Sales Office (presently, the Osaka Branch) in order to bolster sales and marketing in the Kansai region (Tennoji Ward, Osaka) |
| 1975 | Dec. | Purchases a factory building in Minato Ward, Tokyo, making it the Shimbashi No. 1 Factory specializing in the printing of stock certificates |
| 1976 | Jan. | Morio Ueno becomes President and Representative Director |
| 1978 | Apr. | Expands operations from a stock certificate printing company to a specialty printing company that also prints various documents related to the Commercial Code of Japan, including documents involving client company general shareholders' meetings |
| 1985 | Apr. | Cultivated the segment for printing documents related to the Securities and Exchange Act of Japan, such as IPOs, financial reporting and finance, in addition to the printing of securities and documents related to the Commercial Code of Japan, expanding its operating scope as a disclosure business |
| Dec. | Completes construction on its new head office and head office factory building (Minato Ward, Tokyo) | |
| 1986 | Jan. | Seeks to enhance character data processing by implementing the Integrated Publishing System (IPS) |
| 1988 | Aug. | Relocates the Osaka Sales Office to Kitahama (same as current location today: Kitahama, Chuo Ward, Osaka) |
| 1989 | Dec. | Establishes ASP Communications Co., Ltd. in Toyama City in order to bolster its character data processing structure (presently, a consolidated subsidiary) |
| 1991 | Jan. | Establishes the Nagoya Sales Office (presently, the Nagoya Branch) in order to enhance its sales and marketing activities in the Tokai region (Naka Ward, Nagoya) |
| 1994 | July | Registers its stock with the Japan Securities Dealers Association as an over-the-counter company |
| Dec. | Establishes the Fukuoka Sales Office in order to enhance its sales and marketing activities in the Kyushu region (Chuo Ward, Fukuoka) | |
| 1995 | Mar. | Launches the Disclosure Practice Study Group as an organization providing information related to practical disclosure operations for clients |
| Oct. | Establishes the Sapporo Sales Office in order to enhance its sales and marketing activities in the Hokkaido region (Chuo Ward, Sapporo) | |
| 1996 | Sept. | Lists its stock on the Second Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange |
| 1997 | Jan. | Constructs a new factory in Toyama City to expand the scale of its business operations and leases it to ASP Communications Co., Ltd., which relocates its head office to the site of the factory |
| 1999 | Mar. | Establishes the Hiroshima Sales Office in order to enhance its sales and marketing activities in the Chugoku region (Naka Ward, Hiroshima) |
| May | Establishes the ASP Information Center within ASP Communications Co., Ltd. | |
| May | Launches operations of ASPNET, a high-security two-way network for clients | |
| 2000 | Apr. | Security Logistics Co., Ltd. commences sales and marketing activities in order to distribute PRONEXUS products and services |
| 2001 | Mar. | The facilities of the ASP Information Center established within ASP Communications Co., Ltd. are expanded in order to enhance security and capacity building |
| June | Establishes eol, Inc. for the distribution of corporate financial information over the Internet in order to cultivate the contents business segment | |
| 2002 | Aug. | Establishes a2media corporation for the planning and production of IR-related tools in order to expand the IR business segment |
| 2003 | Mar. | ASP Communications Co., Ltd. acquires Information Security Management System (ISMS) certification |
| May | Launches disclosure document production system for EDINET or EDITS | |
| June | The development of IR-site production & update service "E-IR" | |
| 2004 | Sept. | Stock listing is transferred to the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange |
| Oct. | ASP Communications Co., Ltd. receives a fiscal 2004 TQM Encouragement Award from the Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers | |
| 2005 | Jan. | Relocates the offices of the Osaka Branch to the Osaka Securities Exchange Building (Kitahama, Chuo Ward, Osaka) |
| 2006 | May | Establishes a newly revised management philosophy and all-new code of conduct |
| May | PRONEXUS' manufacturing department acquires ISO 14001 certification for its environmental management system | |
| Oct. | Changes its corporate name to PRONEXUS Inc. | |
| Oct. | Carves out its securities printing department to form a new company that assumes the former company name, Asia Securities Printing Co., Ltd. | |
| Dec. | Establishes joint venture company ZAIHON, INC., a translation services provider focused on financial documents | |
| 2008 | Feb. | Relocates its head office to Kaigan 1-chome, Minato Ward, Tokyo |
| Apr. | Acquires company-wide ISO 27001 certification for its information security management system | |
| May | Reacquires company-wide ISO 9001 certification for its quality management system | |
| June | Introduces an executive officer system and establishes the positions of CEO and COO | |
| July | Launches services of PRONEXUS WORKS, a disclosure operations support system | |
| 2009 | Apr. | Launches sales of WORKS-i, a disclosure and accounting information generating system |
| 2010 | June | Takeshi Ueno becomes President and Representative Director |
| Jul. | Begins operations of Toda Plant (relocated from Minato Ward, Tokyo, to Toda City, Saitama Prefecture) | |
| 2011 | June | Launches services of PRONEXUS FUND DOCUMENT SYSTEM, an operations support system for investment trust firms |
| 2012 | July | Begins airing PRONEXUS' "Asaichi Market Square Asazai" on Radio Nikkei |
| 2013 | Jan. | Acquires Hitachi High-Technologies' corporate information database service "NEXT Yuho Kakumei" and launches new integrated database eolDB |
| Apr. | Makes ZAIHON, Inc. a wholly -owned subsidiary to strengthen its English- language IR service capabilities (presently, a consolidated subsidiary) | |
| Nov. | Acquires shares in Mitsue-Links Co., Ltd. (now an equity-method affiliate) to strengthen its online-related businesses | |
| Dec. | Launches the new PRONEXUS WORKS, a disclosure operations support compliant with Japan's Financial Service Agency (FSA) Next Generation Electronics Disclosure for Investors' NETwork (EDINET) | |
| 2014 | Aug. | Establishes PRONEXUS TAIWAN Co., Ltd. in order to provide BPO Business for Japanese Companies in Taiwan (presently, a consolidated subsidiary) |
| 2015 | Mar. | DISCLOSURE PRO, Inc. established as a joint venture to provide disclosure and BPO services (an affiliate of PRONEXUS under the equity method of accounting) |
| Aug. | Business alliance with Business Brain Showa-Ota, Inc. Capital tie-up in December | |
| 2016 | Apr. | Launches "Smart Convocation Notice Service" |
| 2017 | Apr. | Launches full-fledged WORKS-Core as a new service for improving disclosure operation processes |
| May | Launches "IFRS Disclosure Total Support Package" | |
| 2018 | Jun. | Establishes PRONEXUS TAIWAN's second business center in Taipei |
| Oct. | Upgrades the Nagoya Sales Office to branch status | |
| Oct. | Acquires shares of I-N Information Systems, Ltd. (making it a subsidiary) | |
| 2019 | Apr. | Launches New Medium-term Management Plan 2021 |
| Oct. | In order to strengthen web integration and expand the digital marketing domain, acquires shares of Rainbow Japan Inc. (making it a subsidiary) | |
| Oct. | Establishes PRONEXUS Vietnam Co., Ltd. in order to provide BPO Business for Japanese Companies in Taiwan | |
| 2020 | July | Acquires shares of DISCLOSURE PRO Inc. (making it a subsidiary) |
| Dec. | Celebrating the 90th anniversary, establishment of a new management framework |