Goodwill Group Inc., a staffing company and the parent of scandal-hit nursing care unit Comsn Inc., said Tuesday it intends to seek a new buyer for its nursing-care business in Kyushu after one prospect broke off talks.
Goodwill and Yushin Kikaku, based in Kumamoto Prefecture, plan to end negotiations. Goodwill's advisory board and Kumamoto officials will seek another candidate, Goodwill said in a statement released through the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
Goodwill is still in talks with 15 other possible buyers of nursing-care businesses after the government barred the company from opening new nursing homes as a penalty against its Comsn unit for falsification of documents.
Goodwill's Kumamoto caregiver business generated ¥822 million out of a total ¥186 billion in sales last year.