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>"Masaru Tange

says the strategy that turned his company into one of Japan’s best-performing stocks may be surprising: He buys smaller firms and boosts their workers’ pay.

Tange’s

Shift Inc., a software tester

, acquires other businesses

near the bottom of the industry supply chain

and

raises their engineers’ salaries.

He says he’s able to do this and still charge competitive prices by

cutting out layers of companies that serve as middlemen in the outsourcing process.

And having more workers leads to higher sales."



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