Top Page  >  Business Areas  >  Statistics The variety of segmented cards JCB can offer demonstrates our unrivaled versatility and ability to provide card products that best satisfy each cardmember. Designing our products to reflect the needs of contemporary consumers helps make JCB the card of choice and a dominant card brand in Japan. Always looking to expand the JCB cardmember base, we have established an active issuance licensing program both within and outside of Japan. In 1985, we launched the first international JCB card issuance program in Hong Kong. JCB cards are now issued in 19 countries and territories, with 55.75 million cardmembers as of March 2007 and 7,125 billion yen in annual sales for April 2006 through March 2007. In order to offer the same superior convenience and services to JCB cardmembers wherever they may be, we have tirelessly worked to increase the overall number of JCB merchant establishments worldwide. Now our robust international card issuance program is accelerating the expansion of the JCB merchant network even further. The rising number of JCB cards issued outside Japan is driving new sales opportunities for JCB merchants around the globe. Today, JCB cards are accepted at 13.50 million merchants in 190 countries and territories worldwide. JCB Merchant Network The growing cardmember base and expanding merchant network have not been achieved by the efforts of JCB alone. We have concentrated on building alliances with more than 350 of the world's most highly reputed financial institutions, whose support has fortified JCB's position as an international card brand.