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Award-winning item: Disaster countermeasures [The Komeri Disaster Management Center NPO]
Business Owner: The Komeri Disaster Management Center NPO + KOMERI Co., Ltd
Category: Awareness improvement for individual and public
Company: KOMERI (Japan)
Award Number: 21G181558
Outline of Good Design Award winners: Outline of Good Design Award winners 2021

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Outline: This NPO makes full use of the distribution network, making full use of the largest number of stores in Japan, and is building a network that delivers disaster recovery supplies in response to requests from local governments in the event of a disaster. At 10 distribution centers nationwide, disaster recovery supplies are stockpiled separately from distribution inventory to prepare for emergencies
Producer: Yuichirou Sasage, The Komeri Disaster Management Center NPO
Director: Michinori Furusawa, The Komeri Disaster Management Center NPO
Designer: Hiroshi Hayakawa, Chika Kageyama, The Komeri Disaster Management Center NPO
More information: http://www.komeri-npo.org/
Already in service/use: 2005/7

Evaluation

Design of a framework to supply materials in times of disaster by making active use of the distribution channel owned by KOMERI. Distribution activities made by KOMERI, a DIY retailer that has 21 distribution centers nationwide and develops its stores in 46 prefectures, is very meaningful. The design of the framework is wonderful, in which a KOMERI store that people use for their daily needs is transformed into an emergency platform in times of disaster, thereby encouraging people to think that the disaster and extraordinary situation may exist just next to our ordinary life. It is expected to update the disaster prevention scheme design around the nation by expanding and developing this concept.