Hashimoto City Subsidy for New Product Development and Market Development: Market Development Program

1. Overview: This Hashimoto City program supports businesses that exhibit their own products, produced or processed in the city, at trade fairs and similar events outside the city in order to develop sales channels and promote the city's appeal. It is part of the city's subsidy framework for new product development and market development, administered by the Industrial Promotion Division of the Economic Promotion Department. 2. Eligible applicants: Eligible applicants include SMEs and agriculture, forestry or fishery operators with a registered head office or branch in Hashimoto City, sole proprietors with both address and principal office in the city, city-based cooperatives or voluntary groups mainly composed of such businesses, chambers of commerce, agricultural cooperatives, business cooperatives, and corporations with a city partnership memorandum for local-resource-based product development or market development. Applicants with city tax arrears or ties to anti-social forces are excluded. 3. Eligible activities and costs: The eligible activity is exhibiting city-produced or city-processed own products at an exhibition or similar event held outside the city. Eligible costs include booth fees, exhibition decoration, outsourcing, rental fees, travel, shipping and communications, publicity, and miscellaneous service fees. Costs must arise from contracts or orders after the grant decision, must be necessary and identifiable, must be supported by evidence, and must be paid within the project period. 4. Rate, cap and schedule: The subsidy rate is up to one half of eligible costs, with a cap of 200,000 yen. Applications are accepted from April 6, 2026 through January 29, 2027, and the project/payment period runs from the grant decision through February 26, 2027. Applicants should submit the designated application, business plan, budget, pledge, tax clearance certificate, registration certificate or resident record, financial documents, applicant profile, and exhibition materials before starting the project.