- Business
- WDB Holdings Co., Ltd. (2475.T) serves as a holding company primarily engaged in human resource services, contract research organization (CRO) activities, and platform solutions within the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, chemical, and engineering sectors. The company operates through its subsidiaries to provide temporary staffing, permanent placement, and dispatching services for scientific researchers, engineers, and specialists in biopharma research and development, chemical sectors, and engineering fields; CRO support encompassing safety information management, data management and statistical analysis, consulting, quality control, dossier preparation for product registration, clinical trial support, regulatory affairs, and pharmacovigilance for pharmaceuticals, medical devices, quasi-drugs, cosmetics, food, and feed; platform services including doconico for staffing management and other digital solutions for centralized operations; as well as other offerings such as contracted manufacturing of organic chemicals, M&A and business revitalization support in pharmaceuticals, chemistry, foodstuffs, and engineering, and initiatives promoting employment of the disabled through data processing and related tasks. WDB Holdings maintains operations principally in Japan with Tokyo and Himeji offices, alongside international presence in Europe and the United States via subsidiaries like Oy Medfiles Ltd. for clinical and regulatory services. Founded in 1985 and headquartered at 101 Edomachi, Chuo-ku, Kobe-shi, Hyogo, Japan, the company lists on the Prime Market of the Tokyo Stock Exchange and manages nine group companies employing over 1,000 staff excluding temporary workers. Recent developments include the October 2025 relocation of its head office to Kobe from Himeji; the November 2023 establishment of DOCO1 Co., Ltd. for staffing platform development and operations; the 2023 acquisition and merger of WDB Clinical Research Co., Ltd. into WDB coco Co., Ltd.; a 2022 shift to the Tokyo Stock Exchange Prime Market alongside WDB coco's move to the Growth Market; and ongoing platform digitization efforts in CRO services as part of its transformation into a platform-based business model.