ABOUT US

A brand is a relationship between company and customer that secures future earnings by securing preference and loyalty. – John Murphy

John Murphy, founder of INTERBRAND, who annually evaluates the value of hundreds of brands worldwide, defined brands as the driving force behind the company’s continued value creation. APU PRIME also has a management philosophy that the value of a brand must eventually be proven through profit generation.

Founded by David KIM and Richard RIM in 2016 as part of the APU Global Copyright Project, APU PRIME is a brand-specialized company that conducts licensing and publishing business targeting the Korean, Japanese, Chinese, and Southeast Asian markets. APU PRIME owns, manages, and markets a portfolio of consumer brands that span across many tiers of distribution from luxury to mass market.

The main tasks are brand management, artist agency, and brand goods distribution, and we secure global licenses in the fields of fashion, lifestyle, sports, food and beverage, discover competitive local brands, and collaborate between brands.

EXECUTIVE

Our highest value is our people. Our team of 10+ best-in class executives in Seoul, Tokyo, Osaka, Toronto, Honolulu, Hochiminh, and Singapore who collaborate to deliver actionable solutions that help clients innovate, drive growth, and solve problems that seem unsolvable.

Partners David KIM and Richard RIM anchor our APU executive. Together, they provide a combined 50 years of project publishing experience. We are an assembly of highly-skilled professionals that share a vision of efficiency and balance. Building this team requires a level of trust that allows each of us to do our job without fear and with a feeling of purpose.

With APU, you are working with professionals who have extensive backgrounds working in brand management, artist agency, project publishing and brand investments.

Our leadership is defined by trust and excellence. We work together collaboratively and with passion to create effective brand marketing solutions for our client partners.

Hayashi / ハヤシ

Chairman

総括会長

David / デヴィッド

CEO

代表取締役

Richard / リチャード

Chief Strategy Officer

最高戦略責任者

Isaac / アイザック

U.S. Business Representative

アメリカ事業統括責任者

Nami / 福士奈見

Japan business representative

日本事業統括責任者

Claire / クレア

Chief Brand Officer

ブランド事業本部長

James / ジェームズ

Chief Financial Officer

最高財務責任者

Jason / ジェイソン

Distribution Manager

海外流通責任者

J. Choi / チェ·ジョンピル

Global Investment Expert

国際投資専門家

S. Go / コ·スンウク

S. Go/ コ·スンウク

Artist Agency Expert

エージェンシーの専門家

Management Goals

MISSION

Everyone’s Brand. Everything about Brand.

VISION

ASIA No.1 Brand Management Company.
We aim for sustainable shared growth and grow into Asia’s No. 1 brand management company and Global TITAN.

VALUES

Our core values as challengers and innovators
1. Awesome project
2. Passionate colleague
3. Unsurpassed performance

Core Power

APU business competitiveness is not simply based on capital size. We continue to strengthen our project publishing competitiveness with six key resources.

We invest in sustainable BRAND

Our brand investment philosophy is simple and clear. APU combines innovative ideas with people and capital to create sustainable new brand projects.

APU’s investment mandate is to identify and purchase consumer brand companies where it can leverage the brand equity and expand its current categories to a broader consumer base.

We support capital and management ability by selecting brand items that are highly likely to develop through additional support and among brand projects with high technical skills and potential in marketable areas, we are playing a role as successful partners.

Our brand investment philosophy is simple and clear. APU combines innovative ideas with people and capital to create sustainable new brand projects.

APU’s investment mandate is to identify and purchase consumer brand companies where it can leverage the brand equity and expand its current categories to a broader consumer base.

Wide Spectrum

We explore and constantly challenge new projects in a variety of business areas, from brand, entertainment, fashion, trade, franchise, fintech, healthcare, and real estate development.

Connectivity and Optimization

We create business opportunities based on original planning and systematic execution, commercialize core values by linking and optimizing project resources, and supply them to markets around the world.

IPR Synergy

+ IPR Synergy

Intellectual Property Rights is one of the keys to APU business. We develop and discover competitive IPR, connect them to our all projects, and develop value and scalability.