The OSP Group (headquarters: Tennoji-ku, Osaka City; President: Matsuguchi Tadashi), centered around OSAKA SEALING PRINTING CO., LTD., a one-stop manufacturer of stickers, labels, Carton Package, and promotional tools, held an event for the "2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo" Two Years to Go project on Saturday, April 15, 2023, entitled "Make a Panel with Stickers to Mark the Two Years to the Expo!"

"Let's make a sticker panel 2 years before the Expo!" was held under the theme of learning and having fun with stickers, as the OSP Group is a company that will cooperate with the Expo in providing stickers and labels, and as a leading sticker company. A total of 26 employees and their children participated in the experience-based event, which featured three enjoyable workshops.

■ Purpose of the event

1. Promoting the 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo

2. Part of our social contribution to teach children, who will lead the future, about various jobs in society

3. Creating opportunities for employees' children to understand their parents' work

■Event details

The event allowed participants to experience learning and fun in each of the three workshops.

1. Making stickers

2. Make a gift using stickers

3. Let's all make a huge panel with stickers to show the key visual for the Expo 2 years from now

We created an opportunity to learn about the role that stickers play and the various jobs involved in sticker manufacturing, and to have fun making presents using stickers while touching and learning about sticker products for packaging and message cards. For the main event, a total of 54 participants, mainly children, and staff came together to enjoy sticking about 4,000 stickers onto a 2m high x 3.6m wide panel, completing the panel.
In addition, various sticker products from Osaka Sealing Printing were on display, providing an opportunity to learn about stickers in everyday life.

■ Participant comments

[Learning and Awareness]

・Through the workshop, I learned that there are many different types of sticker jobs, that there are many products other than label stickers, and that it's amazing how even though they look like paper, they stick together when you rub them together. I wonder how that happens.

・When making panels, students said, "Even though the stickers are round, when you put a lot of them on, they become non-circular, which is amazing," and "I've never put stickers on such large panels before, so it's fun."

・While looking at the stickers on display, some commented, "I learned that this is how they are attached and what their role is," "There are all kinds of stickers, like glitter ones, and they're all so cute!" "I knew they made stickers, but through this event I learned what kinds of products they are used in."

[Parent-child interaction]

・"I explained to my child that all these stickers were made by Dad!" "He was so impressed when I told him that the glue used in the Pitta Wraps to wrap the snacks was the same as the glue used in eco-bags at supermarkets."

Other comments included, "There were some stickers I'd seen before," and "It was fun wrapping the sweets! I made a souvenir for my younger sister who was at home alone."

■Status of the day

■Event overview

Venue: OSAKA SEALING PRINTING CO., LTD. Innovation Center (5-8-23 Kamikita, Hirano-ku, Osaka City)

Date and time: Saturday, April 15, 2023 10:30-12:00

Participants: 26 OSO Group employees and children (6 elementary school students or younger, 8 elementary school students, 1 junior high school student)

■OSP Holdings Company Profile

• Company name: OSP HOLDINGS CO., LTD.

• Address: 6-8 Ajihara Honmachi Tennoji-ku, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture

• Representative: Matsuguchi Tadashi

• Founded: 1969

• Business description: Business planning and management of the corporate group and related operations

• URL: https://www.osp-group.jp

Founded in 1927, the OSP Group is a comprehensive packaging company with a total of 15 companies (9 domestic and 6 overseas), and has 18 production bases nationwide to fulfill its mission of social infrastructure, mainly food distribution. Since its founding, the company has expanded its business scope in response to changes in the times, such as customer needs and the social environment. Currently, the company provides products and services that enrich society and the lives of customers through the planning, design, and manufacturing of stickers and labels, Carton Package, and promotional materials. In order to achieve high quality and stable supply, the group also operates in a wide range of areas, from material procurement, development and manufacturing of sticker and label printing base paper and printing peripherals, to designing and research and development of labeling systems.