Profil Financier
Hisao Nagata occupe actuellement le rang #2263 du classement mondial StarFortune (secteur luxe, mode & beauté). Fortune nette estimée : $1.8 B (-$436 sur 24h).
Hisao Nagata is the founder and chairman of Trial Holdings, a discount supermarket chain with interests in retail IT and developing AI systems. His son Hiroyuki is a director.
Nagata's father, Oumi, opened a thrift store called Asahiya in 1974 in Fukuoka, which Hisao took over in 1981. Three years later, he changed the name to Trial Company and also started a software developer focusing on retail.
Trial has developed technology to decrease labor costs and increase efficiency, including self-checkout shopping carts and AI-powered cameras to gather shopper behavior data and monitor inventory.
Trial has over 600 stores in Japan and posted $5.2 billion in revenue in the fiscal year ended in June 2025.
In March 2024, Trial was listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange's Growth bourse.
The first Trial discount store opened in 1992.
Nagata has written books on retail AI and digitization, including one in 2022 titled 'How to Win the Retail Digital Transformation.'