Sojitz Corporate Presentation 2012

2.  Group Symbol
 Group Statement
The Sojitz Group produces new sources of wealth by
connecting the world’s economies, cultures and
people in a spirit of integrity.
 Group Slogan
Sojitz is committed to delivering new value to society through
innovative thinking unconstrained by conventional wisdom.
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3. About the Sojitz Group
 Group Management Vision
The position the Sojitz Group seeks to achieve
 Unrelentingly enhance the Group's trading company functions, as
demanded by clients, by fully grasping and anticipating clients' diverse
needs (Function-oriented trading company)
 Take advantage of changes and continuously develop new business
fields (Innovating trading company)
 Become a company in which each and every employee can work with
pride and pursue challenges and explore opportunities to realize his or
her own personal goals and ambitions (Open and flexible company)
 Seek to harmonize the Group's corporate activities with the society
and the environment by consistently putting the Group's Statement
into practice (Socially contributive company)
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4. The History of Sojitz Group
Nichimen Corporation
Nissho Company Iwai Sangyo Company
1892 Japan Cotton Trading Co., Ltd.
1902 Suzuki & Co., Ltd. established 1896 Iwai & Co., Ltd. established
established
Nissho Iwai Corporation 1982 Company name changed
1968 Nissho Company and Iwai to Nichimen Corporation
Sangyo Company merged
2003 Nissho Iwai-Nichimen Holdings Corporation established
through the transfer of shares by Nichimen Corporation and
Nissho Iwai Corporation, which become its subsidiaries
2004 Subsidiaries Nichimen Corporation and Nissho Iwai
Corporation merged to form Sojitz Corporation
Name of holding company changed to Sojitz Holdings
Corporation
2005 Sojitz Holdings Corporation merged with
subsidiary Sojitz Corporation and company
name changed to Sojitz Corporation
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5. Corporate Data
Company Name Sojitz Corporation
Established April 1, 2003
Capitalization 160,339 million yen
President & CEO Yoji Sato
1-20, Akasaka 6-chome, Minato-ku,
Head Office
Tokyo 107-8655, Japan
TEL +81-3-5520-5000
FAX +81-3-5520-2390
URL http://www.sojitz.com/en
Corporate
Board of Corporate Auditors
Governance Model
Stock Exchange Listings Tokyo, Osaka
(As of April 1, 2012)
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6. Financial Information
 Consolidated Financial Highlights
(Year ended March 31, 2012) (As of March 31, 2012)
Total assets 2,120.6 billion
Net sales 4,494.2 billion
Net assets 330.5 billion
Ordinary income 62.2 billion Equity ratio 14.4%
Net interest-bearing debt 647.8 billion
Net income (3.6billion)
Net DER 2.1 times
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7. Sojitz Group's Global Network
The Sojitz Group is a general trading company with a worldwide
network comprising over 500 group companies and operations
in some 50 countries.
Number of Branches & Offices
Domestic: 7
Overseas: 91
Number of Subsidiaries & Affiliates
Domestic: 140
Overseas: 363
Number of Employees
Non-consolidated: 2,277
Consolidated: 16,302
(As of December 31, 2011)
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8. Sojitz Organizational Chart
General Shareholders’
Meeting
Board of Corporate Auditors
Corporate Auditors Corporate Auditor’s Office
Nomination Committee
Board of Directors
Remuneration Committee
Chairman
President & CEO Management Committee
Internal Audit Dept.
Machinery Division
Risk Management Planning Dept. ・Automotive Unit
Risk Management Dept. 1 ・Infrastructure Project & Industrial Machinery Unit
Risk Management Dept. 2 ・Marine & Aerospace Unit
Legal Dept.
Internal Control Administration Dept.
IT Planning Dept. Energy & Metal Division
Finance Dept. ・Energy Unit
Forex & Securities Dept. ・Coal & Nuclear Unit
Structured Finance Dept. ・Steel & Mineral Resources Unit
Corporate Accounting Dept.
Asset Management Dept. Chemicals Division
Human Resources & General Affairs Dept. ・Chemicals Unit
Public Relations Dept. ・Ecological Materials & Resources Unit
Corporate Planning Dept.
Regional Coordination & Administration Dept. Consumer Lifestyle Business Division
Investor Relations Office ・Foods Resources Unit
Logistics & Insurance Dept. ・Agriculture & Forest Resources Unit
・Consumer Service & Development Unit
Secretariat Dept. (As of April 1, 2012)
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9. Sojitz Group Snapshot
Japan China Asia & Oceania The Americas Europe, Russia & NIS Middle East & Africa
 Smart city related business
Machinery Division
 Renewable Energy  Smart city related business
  Transportation infrastructure
Export of automobiles  Water business
  Renewable Energy  Automobile distribution
Industrial machinery  Smart city related business  Transportation infrastructure
  Automobile assembly, sales  Industrial machinery
Commercial aircraft sales  Water business  Renewable Energy  Renewable Energy
representative and distribution; automobile  Plants
 Automobile dealerships  Automobile assembly, sales, dealerships  Water business
 Sales and brokerage of  New building orders, ship
 Industrial machinery and distribution
 Industrial machinery  Plants and IPP
ships, ship chartering, sale chartering
 Plants  Industrial machinery
of ship equipment  IT infrastructure and service  Renewable Energy
 Plants and IPP
 Sales of IT and related  IPP
equipment; solutions and  Business jets
service; data centers
 Sales of various types of
Energy & Metal
energy (LNG, petroleum  Coal mines and coal trading  Oil and gas, including
products, coal, etc.)
 Sales of coal  LNG unconventional oil and gas
 Service station and tank
Division
 Trading of petroleum  Production of bioethanol;  Oil and gas  Oil and gas
storage operation  Sales of industrial minerals
products biopower generation  Nuclear fuel enrichment  LNG
 Sales of steel-making  Sales of various rare metals
 Rare metals (nickel, cobalt)  Nonferrous metals (copper)  Sales of biofuel  Rare metals (vanadium,
materials (iron ore, coal,  Sales of iron ore
etc.)  Nonferrous metals (alumina)  Rare metals (molybdenum,  Rare metals (tungsten) ferrochrome)
 Development of iron mines niobium)
 Sales of various rare metals
and industrial minerals and iron ore trading  Iron ore trading
 Steel products
 Sales and import of rare  Manufacture and sales of
earths, lithium compounds methanol  Manufacture and sales of
Chemicals
and industrial salt  Rare earth mines dicyclopentadiene  Manufacture and sale of
Division
 Sales of solvents and  Procurement of rare earths  Manufacture and sales of  Manufacture and sales of packaging materials
thinners  Sales of organic chemicals marine chemicals (potash, Metton® resins  Sales of solvents
 Plastic resins  Sale of resin compounds industrial salt)  Sales of butadiene  Sales of industrial films
 Sales of electronic materials  Sales of flat-panel display  Manufacture and sales of  Sales of plastic resins
 Sales of cellulose materials packaging materials
 Sales of cosmetics  Sales of plastic resins
Consumer Lifestyle
 Sales of various foodstuffs
Business Division
and food materials  Chemical fertilizers
 Sales of grain and feed  Wholesaling of foodstuffs  Agriculture
 Sales of processed seafood  Flour mills, port silos  Meat processing and
 Fish farming  Foodstuff logistics  Feed packing
Grain-related business
 Tobacco  Manufacture and sales of  Fish farming  Sporting goods
Lumber trading Woodchips
 Import of brand sundries apparel  Woodchips and afforestation  Production of ingredients for
 Airport retail  Industrial park development Food
 Sales of lumber bread
 OEM textiles  Sales of grain  Consolidation and sales of
 Apparel brands  Bread production specialized grain
 Import and sale in Japan of  Rice bran oil
timber, plywood, etc.
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10. Overview of Operations

11. Machinery Division
Infrastructure Project &
Automotive Unit Industrial Machinery Unit
Businesses Businesses
 Completely built-up (CBU) vehicle export  IPP business
business; local vehicle assembly, manufacturing  Plants (steel, fertilizer&chemical, energy, power)
and sales business; wholesale and retail  Industrial machinery and production systems
business; component and tire exports; (surface mounters, bearings, equipment related
automotive equipment and engineering business to the environment and new energy, etc.)
Automotive Business IPP Business, Plant Business
Expanding the earnings base through cost- Expertise in IPP business as well as large-scale
competitive products in growing markets plant business
Headquarters of Hyundai de Puerto Rico Fertilizer plant of Fatima Fertilizer Company Ltd.
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12. Machinery Division
Marine & Aerospace Unit IT Business Dept.
Businesses Businesses
 Newbuilding, second-hand ships, ship chartering,  Sales and maintenance of communications and IT
ship equipment sales business and ship-owning equipment; systems integration
business  Software development and sales
 Commercial aircraft sales representative for The  Data centers, cloud services and managed services
Boeing Company, Bombardier Inc., etc.; defense  Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and Information
equipment agency and sales business; business-jet Technology Outsourcing (ITO)
business
Marine and Aerospace Businesses
Comprehensive strengths in the marine business High-speed Internet backbone routers
from Juniper Networks, Inc.
and the top share of the domestic commercial
aircraft agency business
Environment & Urban Infrastructure Development Office
Businesses
 Transport infrastructure business
 Renewable Energy business
 Water business
 Smart city related businesses
Boeing 787 Dreamliner The Buenos Aires owned by Sojitz Mega-Solar Power Business in Germany
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13. Energy & Metal Division
Energy Unit Coal & Nuclear Unit
Businesses Businesses
 Oil, natural gas, LNG, gasoline, light oil, heavy  Coal (thermal coal, PCI coal, coking coal)
oil, jet fuel, and bio fuel  Nuclear fuel cycle services and nuclear
 Other equipment
Energy Development Coal and Nuclear Business
Promoting acquisition of upstream energy interests and • Pursuing synergies between trading and investment of
securing regionally balanced interests upstream coal concessions, and providing stable supply
to customers
• Providing a full range of services of nuclear fuel cycle
Al Karkara Oil Field, offshore Qatar Lake Vermont Coal Mine in Australia
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14. Energy & Metal Division
Steel Mineral & Resources Unit
Businesses
 Iron ore, iron ore pellets, hot briquetted iron
 Rare metals (molybdenum, niobium, vanadium, tungsten, etc.)
 Industrial minerals (fluorite, zircon, etc.)
 Silicon Metal
 Non-ferrous metals (bauxite, alumina, copper concentrates,
copper, etc.)
 Other
Ferrous Materials & Non-Ferrous Metals Business
Promoting trading and investment of upstream concessions for a variety of
ferrous materials and non-ferrous metals.
Araxá plant of Companhia Brasileira de Metalurgia
e Mineração (CBMM) in Brazil
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15. Chemicals Division
Chemicals Unit
Businesses
 Basic chemicals: Ketone, ethanol, methanol, tank operation
 Speciality chemicals: metton, synthetic rubber, resin, synthetic raw material
Metton® Business Methanol Business
A new environmentally friendly molding material Rising demand as a chemical raw material as well
as for fuel applications
Methanol manufacturing facilities in Indonesia
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16. Chemicals Division
Ecological Materials & Resources Unit
Businesses
 Chemical resources: Import and overseas sales of industrial salt; import and sales of rare earths and lithium
 Functional materials: Export and import of carbon fiber and cellulose; sales of high-performance nonwoven
cloth
 Advanced electronic materials: Sales of flat-panel displays (FPD); sales of printed circuit boards
Industrial Salt Business Rare Earth Business
A key raw material for basic chemicals, with broad Stable supply and production of important
applications resources which is now an essential part of the
infrastructure of modern societies
Salt stocks before shipment in India Neodymium iron boron alloy
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17. Consumer Lifestyle Business Division
Foods Resources Unit Agriculture & Forest Resources Unit
Businesses Businesses
 Grains and feed materials: Wheat, soybeans,  Agribusiness: Chemical fertilizer and agriculture
corn, rice, pasture, compound feed, etc.  Forest products: Import, offshore trading and
 Food raw materials: Sugar, coffee, oil and fat, sales in Japan of timber, lumber, plywood,
flour, flour milling, etc. building materials, woodchips, pulp, etc.;
 Marine products: Tuna, shrimp, processed overseas afforestation and woodchip production
seafood and fish farming businesses
 Agribusiness: Chemical fertilizer and agriculture
Overseas Wheat and Flour Milling Business Woodchip and Afforestation Businesses
Interflour Vietnam Ltd. aim to become Vietnam’s Developing woodchip businesses in Africa, in
leading flour milling company addition to Asia and Australia
A plantation site in South Africa for
IFV’s flour mill, silos and port facilities supplying woodchip materials
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18. Consumer Lifestyle Business Division
Consumer Service & Development Unit.
Businesses
 Retail: Imported brand sundries business including cigarettes and shoes; retail business at airports with
JALUX; overseas consumer products, wholesale, and distribution
 Textiles: OEM and apparel brand business
 Real estate: Condominium development, overseas industrial park development, etc.
Brand and Retail Businesses
A brand business at the leading edge of Overseas Industrial Park Business
diversifying lifestyles and changing consumer Developing, selling lots in and managing industrial
psychology and awareness parks in rapidly growing Asia
Casual shoe brand Long Binh Techno Park in Vietnam
“Admiral”
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19. The Sojitz Group’s CSR
As a member of society, the Sojitz Group aims to build a harmonious relationship with society and the
environment while respecting diverse cultures and values. We proactively conduct CSR initiatives as a
management priority.
Sojitz Group CSR Policy and CSR Priority Themes
Sojitz Group CSR Policy CSR Priority Themes
We will strive to do business in  Promotion of CSR Supply Chain Management
harmony with society and the  Promotion of Businesses That Contribute to Preventing Climate Change
environment, consistently honoring  Promotion of Businesses That Contribute to the Advance of Developing
the Sojitz Group Statement. and Emerging Countries
 Establishment of Personnel Systems and Workplace Environments That
Enable All Employees to Flourish
Promotion of CSR Supply Chain Management Main Social Contribution Initiatives
・Establishment of the Sojitz Reconstruction and Education Fund
(Ａ scholarship program for college students affected by the
 For the Sojitz Group, which conducts business on a Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami)
global scale, promoting CSR in supply chains is ・Pre-School Education Support Project in Tanzania
important. We have formulated CSR Action (Ｉmprovement of the educational environment for pre-school
Guidelines for Supply Chains, conduct surveys of children)
suppliers, and are working in other ways to build ・Support for the Sojitz Foundation
sustainable supply chains with our business partners. (Assistance for foreign students studying in Japan, grants for
international exchanges, etc.)
Children in Tanzania studying in a
Sojitz Group
better environment as a result of a
Supply Chain CSR website
pre-school education support project
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20. Contributing to Addressing Social Issues
through Business
Here are some examples of how we contribute to addressing social issues through our business activities.
Businesses That Contribute to Preventing Businesses That Contribute to the Advance of
Climate Change Developing and Emerging Countries
 Sojitz has designated the new energy and  A variety of issues, including the establishment of
environment business as a new growth field and infrastructure, as well as food and energy, must be
develops environment and renewable energy resolved in order for developing and emerging
businesses that help prevent climate change. countries to prosper.
 Sojitz conducts businesses that take advantage of its
functions as a general trading company to help
resolve these issues.
Contributing to Reducing Reliance on Contributing to Industrial Development
Fossil Fuels Sojitz won an order for a project in the Republic
In Brazil, Sojitz has been working since 2007 to of Tatarstan, Russia to construct a urea fertilizer plant.
establish an integrated business from sugar cane Production is scheduled to begin in 2015. The plant is
cultivation to bioethanol and sugar production. expected to contribute to the development of industry
and agriculture in Russia.
Plant of ETH Bioenergia S.A. Signing ceremony for the fertilizer plant construction project
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21. The Sojitz Group produces new sources of wealth by
connecting the world’s economies, cultures and
people in a spirit of integrity.
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