Mitsufuji Corporation, (Head office: Seika, Kyoto, CEO: Ayumi Mitera)(“Mitsufuji”) and Phone Appli Inc. (Head office: Minato, Tokyo. President: Yosuke Ishihara)(“Phone Appli”) announce a comprehensive partnership for wearable IoT product and marketplace development.

Together, Mitsufuji and Phone Appli will co-develop and offer services combining their respective offerings. Phone Appli’s unified communications platform, which holds the largest domestic market share, will be linked with wearable devices created by major global manufacturers utilizing Mitsufuji’s silver-plated AGposs^® fibers with its world-class conductivity.

The partnership seeks to create and expand new markets in wearable IoT, with the aim of raising sales from this market by over 3 billion yen by 2019.

About Phone Appli Inc.

Through their collaboration platform, Phone Appli Inc. is “Helping to bring forth innovation by connecting people to people and people to things through the Internet.”
Mainly focused on the development and sales of Japan’s number one web-based phone book application, “Phone Appli Collaboration Directory”, they provide an environment connecting people and things, contributing to enterprises and society by enabling easy communication and collaboration.

Using the “Phone Appli Collaboration Directory” as a base, Phone Appli also released its cloud service “PA Cloud” in June 2015, offering a communication environment to additional enterprises.

Website: http://phoneappli.net/

Contacts:

Mitsufuji Corporation:
Lab.Wing 4F Keihanna Plaza, 1-7 Hikaridai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto, 619-0237
Tel (Public relations): 0774-95-2201
Email: pr@mitsufuji.co.jp

Phone Appli Inc.
3rd Floor Isomura Building, 1-1-3, Toranomon, Minarto-ku, Tokyo, 105-0001
Tel (Public relations): 03-5288-7001
Email: press@phoneappli.net