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“Be The Odd One Out, The One Who Can’t Be Replaced” - The Tagline to Convey HENNGE’s Appeal and Promote Recruiting Activity Was Decided 2023.03.24
HENNGE K.K. (headquarters: Shibuya, Tokyo, Representative Director, Chief Executive Officer: Kazuhiro Ogura, “HENNGE”) is pleased to announced that, as part of Japan’s largest advertising award organized by “Sendenkaigi Co., Ltd.” - “The 60th SENDENKAIGI Award” (application period: September 1 - November 1, 2022, announcement: March 2023), the company has chosen “Be The Odd One Out, The One Who Can’t Be Replaced” as the tagline to convey HENNGE’s appeal and encourage people to work with us.
HENNGE One, the cloud security service by HENNGE that supports both the “safety” and “convenience” of the working environment, occupies high market share and features a stable business model with low churn rate. Additionally, the company has a free corporate culture that encourages “change” and “challenge”. With foreign nationals accounting for 20% of the total work force, the company’s strength also lies in its diverse culture. However, being a BtoB business, HENNGE faces the issue of low awareness from potential recruiting candidates and those outside of IT fields.
Therefore, this time, in cooperation with “The 60th SENDENKAIGI Award”, to convey HENNGE’s appeal to a mass audience, after careful internal screening, the tagline “Be The Odd One Out, The One Who Can’t Be Replaced” by Ms. Naoko Kamijo was selected as the winner of the sponsor’s award.
HENNGE will be using Ms. Kamijo’s works for various promotion and recruitment activities in the future.
Comments from Ms. Naoko Kamijo, the winner of the award
Thank you very much for the sponsorship award. Despite HENNGE being an impressive company name, it was very difficult to come up with an appealing point. Even after looking at the company website, the information I read did not “change” into a good idea. When I heard the great news that I had won the awards, the time I spent struggling to come up with an idea has now “changed” into a good memory. I hope that this copy will bring even just a little “change” to someone.
Comments from Mr. Yuya Yamamoto, Division Manager of Corporate Communication Division, HENNGE K.K
Congratulations on receiving the sponsor award. We are a SaaS company that aims to “transform the world through the Liberation of Technology”. Being a BtoB business, we have few chances to interact with you on a regular basis, so it might have been difficult for you to understand our products and develop the tagline. We would like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank those who have submitted entries to HENNGE among many other companies.
The winning entry, “Be The Odd One Out, The One Who Can’t Be Replaced”, was selected because it embodies the culture that HENNGE values, which endorse employees’ individuality and encourage them to take on challenges without fear of failure. We believe that this tagline will open the door to future possibilities. We were also able to gain many new insights from work that were going through numerous trial and error efforts. HENNGE will continue to utilize technology and take on new challenges. We look forward to your continued support!
■ About SENDENKAIGI Award
The SENDENKAIGI Award is an advertising award, in which ideas are submitted in the form of catchphrases or commercial plans. Since its establishment in 1962, the SENDENKAIGI Advertising Award has been “a gateway to success for copywriters”, providing opportunities for many young and aspiring creators. The 60th edition of the awards attracted more than 620,000 entries and continues to evolve as "Japan’s largest open advertising award”.
URL: https://senden.co/
■ About HENNGE K.K.
HENNGE K.K. was established in November 1996. It is a SaaS company, guided by the philosophy of "liberation of technology to change the world" and it develops and sells unique services that bridge the gap between technology and reality. HENNGE provides "HENNGE One", a one-stop cloud security service enabling consolidated IDs and passwords management of multiple cloud services, "Customers Mail Cloud" which is a cloud email distribution service, and "SumaMachi", which is an interactive communication service between local government bodies and their residents. Since October 2019, HENNGE had been listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE), Mothers, and then, a transition was made to the TSE Growth in April, 2022.
The company name "HENNGE" originated from the Japanese character for transformation, 'HENNKA' and 'CHALLENGE', which represents its commitment to keep challenging against every change we encounter.
Company name: HENNGE K.K. (securities code: 4475)
Address: Daiwa Shibuya Square, 16-28 Nanpeidaicho, Shibuya City, Tokyo
Representative: Kazuhiro Ogura (Representative Director, Chief Executive Officer)
URL: https://hennge.com/
■ Contact information for inquiries regarding this press
HENNGE K.K.
Corporate Communication Division
Email: info@hennge.com
TEL: 03-6415-3660
Person in charge: Yano
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