{"id":2939,"date":"2009-04-07T15:21:21","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T06:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=2939"},"modified":"2009-04-07T15:21:21","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T06:21:21","slug":"ntt-docomo-buys-51-stake-in-japans-largest-informercial-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/ntt-docomo-buys-51-stake-in-japans-largest-informercial-company\/","title":{"rendered":"NTT DoCoMo Buys 51% Stake in Japan&#8217;s 4th Largest Informercial Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/docomo_logo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"155\" height=\"40\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2942\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/olm_logo.gif\" alt=\"Oak Lawn Marketing's Logo\" width=\"114\" height=\"51\" \/><br \/>\nJapan&#8217;s largest cellphone career, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nttdocomo.co.jp\/english\/\">NTT DoCoMo<\/a> announced it has agreed to\u00a0 buy 51% stake for approx. USD310M in the country&#8217;s 4th largest TV infomercial company based in Nagoya, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oaklawn.co.jp\/english\/index.html\">Oak Lawn Marketing(OLM)<\/a>.<br \/>\nOLM\u00a0was co-founded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itvjapan.com\/bus_int.asp?Id=14\">a Chicagoese and university graduate<\/a> who visited Nagoya in 1989.\u00a0\u00a0 The company is best known for selling a German stain remover &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.interwood.com\/a\/p\/didi\/DidiDetails.shtml\">DiDi Seven<\/a>&#8221; and an exercise program DVD title &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.billyblanks.com\/category\/store\/bootcamp.do\">Billy&#8217;s Bootcamp<\/a>&#8220;.\u00a0\u00a0 The deal is the mobile carrier&#8217;s attempt to diversify revenue sources\u00a0for developing a new mobile commerce business of its own.<br \/>\nBy the way, NTT DoCoMo also unveiled recently it would start the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1seg\">1-seg<\/a>&#8221; TV broadcasting service next month, which is specifically designed for its subscribers&#8217; handsets and will be co-managed with the Tokyo-based independent music company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avex.co.jp\/e_site\/\">Avex<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s largest cellphone career, NTT DoCoMo announced it has agreed to\u00a0 buy 51% stake for approx. USD310M in the country&#8217;s 4th largest TV infomercial company based in Nagoya, Oak Lawn Marketing(OLM). OLM\u00a0was co-founded by a Chicagoese and university graduate who visited Nagoya in 1989.\u00a0\u00a0 The company is best known for selling a German stain remover&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/ntt-docomo-buys-51-stake-in-japans-largest-informercial-company\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NTT DoCoMo Buys 51% Stake in Japan&#8217;s 4th Largest Informercial Company<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,24],"tags":[2664,2684],"class_list":["post-2939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-news","tag-ntt-docomo","tag-oak-lawn-marketing","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}