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CERES INC. continues to rise on announcement of subsidiary acquisition of online medical consultation platform operator SQUIZ

Thu Apr 2, 2026 9:59 am JST Catalyst

CERES INC. <3696> continued to rise. After the close of trading on the 1st, the company announced that it had acquired 90.0% of the shares of SQUIZ (Shibuya-ku, Tokyo), which engages in the planning and operation of online medical consultation platforms, making it a subsidiary. The news has been viewed as positive.

CERES has been accumulating knowledge and a customer base in the online medical consultation field since entering the online medical consultation business in May 2022 through its online pill consultation service "Anypill." The acquisition of SQUIZ aims to strengthen its D2C online medical consultation platform business and create synergies in the vertically integrated model of its mobile services business. The acquisition price was \3.612 billion. The company noted that the impact of this transaction on its earnings is currently under review.

Source: MINKABU PRESS

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