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Overview of the Sojitz Group Through its corporate activities, the Sojitz Group creates a value chain through coordination of its various businesses throughout the world, business investment and finance, logistics and trade, and product manufacturing and sales to achieve sustained growth together with society. Organization Nomination Committee Remuneration Committee General Shareholders’ Meeting Board of Directors Board of Corporate Auditors Corporate Auditors Corporate Auditor’s Office Chairman Audit Dept. Management Committee President & CEO Public Relations Dept. Other businesses 1.6% Overseas subsidiaries 7.6% Former Consumer Lifestyle Business Division* 24.2% Former Real Estate Development & Forest Products Division* 5.4% Other businesses 7.7% FY2008 Segment Net Sales (Consolidated) ¥5,166.2 billion Machinery Division 21.5% Energy & Metal Division 27.3% Chemicals & Functional Materials Division 12.4% Machinery Division 26.8% Risk Management Dept. Legal Dept. Finance Dept. Structured Finance Dept. Corporate Accounting Dept. Corporate Planning Dept. Investor Relations Dept. Internal Control Administration Dept. The Americas Europe, Russia & NIS China Asia and Oceania Middle East & Africa No. of operating bases (Subsidiaries, offices, etc.) 15 17 16 31 16 95 Overseas subsidiaries 9.3% Former Consumer Lifestyle Business Division* 24.4% Former Real Estate Development & Forest Products Division* 7.0% FY2008 Segment No. of Employees (Consolidated) 17,524 (As of March 31, 2009) Energy & Metal Division 6.5% Chemicals & Functional Materials Division 18.3% IT Planning Dept. Secretariat Dept. Human Resources & General Affairs Dept. Business Promotion Dept. Japan No. of operating bases (Branches, subsidiaries, etc.) 7 (As of July 1, 2009) Asset Management Dept. Sojitz Group: Segment Data (No. of companies) No. of Employees Segment Machinery Division Energy & Metal Division Chemicals & Functional Materials Division Former Real Estate Development & Forest Products Division* Former Consumer Lifestyle Business Division* Overseas subsidiaries Other businesses Total Subsidiaries Affiliates Subsidiaries Affiliates Subsidiaries Affiliates Subsidiaries Affiliates Subsidiaries Affiliates Subsidiaries Affiliates Subsidiaries Affiliates Subsidiaries Affiliates Japan Overseas Total 29 103 132 9 49 58 11 33 44 7 17 24 16 30 46 9 24 33 32 9 41 5 4 9 18 14 32 12 24 36 0 60 60 0 19 19 15 14 29 4 8 12 121 263 384 46 145 191 (As of March 31, 2009) *The former Real Estate Development & Forest Products Division was merged into the former Consumer Lifestyle Business Division in April 2009, becoming the Consumer Lifestyle Business Division. Consolidated: 17,524 Non-consolidated: 2,256 (As of March 31, 2009) 3 Sojitz Group CSR Report 2009
The Sojitz Group consists of 384 subsidiaries and 191 affiliates, a total of 575 companies (of which 538 are consolidated companies) aiming to maximize value in a broad variety of businesses as an innovating, function-oriented trading company group under the Sojitz brand. Machinery Division Automotive Unit Plant, Industrial Machinery & IT Business Unit Marine & Aerospace Unit The Automotive Unit provides wide range of services through its value chain that extends from upstream businesses such as automobile manufacturing equipment and engineering, parts manufacturing and logistics, to midstream businesses such as completely built-up vehicle export, local knockdown, assembly and wholesale, and downstream businesses including retail sales of vehicles and after-sales market. In the Plant, Industrial Machinery & IT Business Unit, the plant business has expertise in steel, fertilizer, electric power and other large-scale plants. The Sojitz Group is taking advantage of its strengths in Asia, Russia and the Newly Independent States of the former Soviet Union, and Africa to expand this business further. In the IT business, we use the functions of Group companies to provide comprehensive services from IT system development and building to maintenance and operation. In the marine business of the Marine & Aerospace Unit, we exercise our industry leadership in a wide range of operations, including newbuilding and second-hand ships, ship chartering, machinery and equipment for shipbuilding and the ship-owning business. Among our diverse operations in the aviation sector, we serve as a sales consultant for Boeing and other overseas manufacturers, and handle business jets and defense-related business. Energy & Metal Division Energy & Nuclear Unit Mineral Resources Unit Steel Business Unit The Energy & Nuclear Unit operates multiple energy businesses. These include development and production of oil and gas upstream interests; an LNG development business through LNG Japan Corporation, in which we own a 50 percent stake; trading and sale of petroleum products; nuclear power; new energy and environmental business. The Mineral Resources Unit handles coal, rare metals, non-ferrous metals, precious metals and other mineral resources, industrial minerals, and ceramics, as well as carbon materials and products through Sojitz Ject Corporation. The Sojitz Group work to enhance its business functions while maintaining the “two wheels” of its cart: securing resources through upstream investment and conducting trading operations. The Steel Business Unit serves the steel industry by handling iron ore, the basic raw material for steel, and acquiring mining interests. In addition, we are expanding our steel-related businesses primarily through Metal One Corporation, in which we own a 40 percent stake. Chemicals & Functional Materials Division Chemicals Unit Functional Materials Unit The Chemicals Unit primarily handles organic and inorganic upstream resources and basic raw materials, including Asia’s largest supply of methanol, as well as rare earths and industrial salt. In the Functional Materials Unit, Sojitz Pla-Net Corporation operates a compound business and supplies plastic raw materials, packaging films, wrapping materials and materials for liquid crystal and other electronics applications. The fine chemicals and functional materials businesses have been combined to form the Fine Chemicals & Functional Materials Department. The Sojitz Group is expanding the scope of its activities to include the supply of technology and intellectual property related to downstream functional materials. Consumer Lifestyle Business Division Foods Resources Unit General Commodities & Textile Unit Forest Products & Real Estate Development Unit The Foods Resources Unit operates across the entire food sector, handling agricultural, marine and livestock products, as well as associated processed foods. Our vision for this business is to establish a strategic value chain that vertically integrates upstream and downstream activities to provide safe and reliable food. To this end, we implement strategic initiatives with our many cooperating factories and joint ventures in Japan and overseas. The General Commodities & Textile Unit operates apparel and wholesale businesses and manages integrated textile operations that extend from raw material procurement to spinning, weaving and dyeing. This unit also supplies lifestyle goods to specialty chains and large mass retailers and operates a trading and retail business that handles consumer goods and related products. The Forest Products & Real Estate Development Unit imports wood products, chips and pulp made from sustainable and recyclable timber resources, which are expected to be in growing demand for absorbing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. In addition, the unit conducts offshore trade, distribution in Japan, and afforestation and woodchip production overseas. In real estate development, the Sojitz Group designs and develops condominiums as well as shopping centers by taking advantage of the Group’s network. Sojitz Group CSR Report 2009 4
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