JMA Research Institute Inc., September 2018 (The number of used cars purchased by major operators specialized in purchasing in the domestic used car purchasing industry, “Used car purchasing ranking research”)

JMA Research Institute Inc., September 2018 (The number of used cars sold by major retail companies in the domestic used car sales industry, “Used car sales ranking research”)

• IDOM was founded in 1994, and expanded its business by operating used car stores nationwide under the “Gulliver” brand. It became a publicly traded company in 1998.
• Today it operates retail stores under multiple channels: “LIBERALA” luxury car specialists, “WOW! TOWN” large-scale showrooms, “HUNT” theme stores for shopping malls, and “OUTLET” localized stores for rural areas.
• Its other businesses in Japan include a new car dealership for BMW. Overseas, in 2015, it acquired major stakes in a Western Australian company that owns multi-brand new car dealerships.
• Its unique culture of integrating business and IT has successfully launched new services such as “NOREL,” the monthly flat rate used car subscription service, and “Gulliver FleMa,” the C2C platform for used cars.
• In July 2016, the company changed its name to IDOM, a homonym of “idomu,” which means “rising to challenges,” to encapsulate its spirit of taking on the challenge of revolutionizing the distribution of automobiles.