List of Japanese Enterprises Doing Business with African Continent and Countries

74 Pages·2014·0.77 MB·English

by  Yukari Umemoto

List of Japanese Enterprises Doing Business
with African Continent and Countries
（English Ver.)
June, 2014
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK External Representation Office for Asia
Definition of term： Type of operation
Industry classification A Locally-incorporated companies
(1-12: Manufacture of) B Representative and/or branch offices
1 Electrical, electronic and information processing equipment C Other type of local business operations and activities
and related products D Trading relationship via local producers, representative and etc.
2 Transportation equipment, motor vehicles and related products
3 Precision instruments and machineries Order of companies' and countries' name
4 General machineries Japanese hiragana order
5 Heavy machineries Area classification basis
6 Ferrous, non-ferrous metal and products Following AU (African Union) practice
7 Chemical products
8 Drugs and medicines Note：
9 Glass, cement and ceramic products ・ The information in this list was extracted from public
10 Textile and clothes information / information which was voluntarily provided by
11 Livingware company / already known facts but not from any restricted
12 Other miscellaneous products information source.
13 Agriculture, forestry and fisheries ・ The information in this list is correct as of May 2014.
14 Foods and beverages ・ This list covers companies that are already working in / with
15 Pulp and paper Africa among type of operation listed above.
16 Natural resource development and refinery, Energy 　 (For your reference, companies that wish to do any business
17 Information and communication service and related products 　 in / with Africa in near future are listed at the end of this list.)
18 General trading firm (Sogo Shosya) ・ Complete English version of this list will be prepared later.
19 Specialize trading firm ・ This list is officially available at the Japanese web site of the
20 Distributer of used cars African Development Bank (http://www.afdb-org.jp/index.html).
21 Distributer of specific products ・ Should you have any information that needs to be amended,
22 Marine and air transportation 　 corrected, updated or even added as new information,
23 Land transportation and logistics please contact below.
24 Financial service ・ Please feel free to cite the information in this list. However,
25 Business consulting and accounting service 　 pleas indicate the source ("List of Japanese Enterprises
26 Travel agency and hotels 　Doing Business with African Continent and Countries,"
27 Restaurants and food service African Development Bank, Africa Business Partners).
28 Retail business
29 Education service Contact:
30 Media and advertising business 　 Africa Business Partners
31 Other miscellaneous services 　 Yukari UMEMOTO (Ms.)
32 Consulting service focusing on international development 　 [phone]
33 Overseas infrastructure and plants construction and related business 　 [email protected]
Industr Area Type of
No. Company name Business details Reference
y Southern Eastern Western Central Northern operation
http://www.atago.net/japane
Namibia,
Egypt, se/index.html
1 ATAGO South D ・Sale of saccharimeters
Tunisia http://www.atago.net/japane
Africa
se/popup_press87.html
http://www.omron.co.jp/
South http://www.omron.co.jp/abou
2 OMRON A ・Sale of control devices
Africa t/corporate/group_location/o
verseas/africa/
South ・Sale of clocks and watches via local sales agents in little less
3 CASIO D http://casio.jp/
Africa than 20 African countries, including South Africa
Angola,
Zambia,
Electric Zimbabwe,
11
al, Swaziland, ・Sale of office equipment and audio-visual devices, such as http://canon.jp/
countries 15 7 countries Algeria,
electro Namibia, digital cameras and video equipment via local sales agents in http://www.canon.co.uk/Cont
except for countries except for Egypt,
nic and Malawi, 48 African countries act_Us/canon_europe_middl
4 CANON Sudan, except for DRC, Tunisia, A,D
inform Botswana, ・Supervising business from locally incorporated companies in e_east_and_africa_offices/
Djibouti, Sierra Equatorial Morocco,
ation South South Africa and the UAE http://web.canon.jp/corp/list0
South Leone Guinea Libya
1 proces Africa, ・Established a locally incorporated company in Kenya in 2013 4.html#anc004
Sudan
sing Mozambiq
equipm ue,
ent and Lesotho
related
product South ・Sale of “iBurst,” a wireless technology the company has http://www.kyocera.co.jp/ind
s Kyocera Mita South Africa, developed jointly with the US company, ArrayComm, and other ex.html
5 Kenya Ghana DRC D business activities http://www.iburstafrica.com/
Africa Mozambiq
・Installation of photovoltaic power generation systems using ?c=mz&lang=English&conte
ue
yen loans nt=ourcompany
・Sale of car batteries, bike batteries, and solar generation kits
http://www.gs-
6 GS Yuasa D via local sales agents in various African countries
yuasa.com/jp/index.asp
・Conducted a JICA BOP FS project in Ethiopia in 2013
http://www.sysmex.co.jp/ind
・Sale of specimen test equipment and reagents ex.html
South ・Established an African Service Center in 2001 http://www.sysmex.co.jp/sys
7 Sysmex B,D
Africa ・Opened a representative office in South Africa in 2006 to mex/group/index.html
support sales agents in south eastern Africa http://www.sysmex.co.jp/sys
mex/history/2000.html
Note: A: Locally-incorporated companies, B:Representative and/or branch offices, C:Other type of local business operations and activities, D:Trading relationship via local producers, representative and etc. 1
Industr Area Type of
No. Company name Business details Reference
y Southern Eastern Western Central Northern operation
・Sale of audio-visual devices, such as digital cameras, and
office equipment
・The company has representative offices in South Africa,
Egypt, and Morocco.
http://www.sharp.co.jp/
・In Egypt, the company has been in a partnership with El Araby
http://www.sharp.co.jp/100th
for the manufacture and sale of air conditioners since 2002. The
South Egypt, /chronological/2000.html
8 Sharp B,D partnership was expanded to cover the manufacture and sale
Africa Morocco http://www.sharp.co.jp/corpo
of refrigerators in 2012. Commenced production in 2014.
rate/g_topix/el_araby/index.h
・The company is now expanding its network of sales agents in
Electric tml
almost all African countries
al,
・Conducted a market access survey for solar-powered
electro
electrolytic water purifiers in Kenya in 2012 as a feasibility study
nic and
for METI
inform
ation ・Sale of home electrical appliances and audio-visual devices
1 proces (MGONGO) via a sales channel which includes exclusive
sing agents in South Africa
equipm ・Sale of acoustic products for African countries via Nigeria
ent and ・Held public viewing events in Ghana, Cameroon, Tanzania,
South Ghana,
related 9 SONY Cameron A,C,D etc. as CSR activities http://www.sony.co.jp/
Africa Nigeria
product ・Has been conducting a JICA BOP FS project on off-grid
s electrification in non-electrified regions of Ghana since 2010
・Announced the establishment of local centers and 67
authorized service centers in Morocco, Ghana, Nigeria and
Angola
http://www.tel.co.jp/
South ・Recycling of ruthenium (a precious metal) together with http://www.toshiba.co.jp/abo
10 Tokyo Electron A
Africa Tanaka Holdings in South Africa ut/press/2012_04/pr_j2002.h
tm
Note: A: Locally-incorporated companies, B:Representative and/or branch offices, C:Other type of local business operations and activities, D:Trading relationship via local producers, representative and etc. 2
Industr Area Type of
No. Company name Business details Reference
y Southern Eastern Western Central Northern operation
・Since the 1970s, Toshiba has sold home electrical appliances
under a sales agent agreement with the Egyptian company, El http://www.toshiba.co.jp/
Araby. The company promoted the licensing of technology and http://www.jetro.go.jp/jfile/re
commenced the manufacture of Toshiba brand products. The port/07000206/egypt201003
company’s market share in Egypt is 60 to 70% for washing 31.pdf
machines and over 50% for CRT-based televisions. In 2003, http://www.toshiba.co.jp/abo
Toshiba Home Appliances established a company to sell home ut/press/2010_12/pr_j1601.h
electrical appliances jointly with El Araby, and in 2011, Toshiba tm
established a joint venture company to manufacture liquid http://www.toshiba.co.jp/abo
crystal televisions with El Araby and provided capital ut/press/2011_01/pr_j1401.h
Electric contribution to the aforementioned joint sales company. tm
al, ・In Egypt in 2010, Toshiba, together with Mitsubishi http://www.mitsubishicorp.co
electro South Corporation and Kinki Sharyo, received an order for train cars m/jp/ja/pr/archive/2010/html/
11 TOSHIBA Kenya Niger Egypt A,D
nic and Africa for a subway system in Cairo (manufacture of electrical 0000010920.html
inform components for train cars). http://www.toshiba.co.jp/abo
ation ・In South Africa in 2006 and 2011, Toshiba, together with ut/press/2011_03/pr_j0203.h
1 proces Mitsui & Co., received an order for electric locomotives to tm
sing transport iron ore from the government-managed general http://www.toshiba.co.jp/abo
equipm transit authority, TRANSNET, and manufactured them. In 2007, ut/press/2007_07/pr_j2301.h
ent and Westinghouse Electric Company purchased the nuclear tm
related department of the South African Company, IST. http://www.toshiba.co.jp/abo
product ・In Kenya in 2012, Toshiba received an order for turbines and ut/press/2011_11/pr_j0701.h
s generators for a geothermal power generation project jointly tm
undertaken by Toyota Tsusho and Hyundai Engineering.
・In 2012, Toshiba acquired an interest in uranium exploration in
Niger.
http://www.nikon.co.jp/
http://www.nikon.co.za/en_Z
・Sale of audio-visual devices A/footers/contacts.page?lid=
South
12 Nikon Nigeria Egypt B,D ・The company has a service center in South Africa and sales 1&lidsub1=0&lidsub2=0&lids
Africa
agents in Nigeria and Egypt. ub3=0&lidsub4=0&sParamV
alueLbl=Contacts&sParamV
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Note: A: Locally-incorporated companies, B:Representative and/or branch offices, C:Other type of local business operations and activities, D:Trading relationship via local producers, representative and etc. 3
Industr Area Type of
No. Company name Business details Reference
y Southern Eastern Western Central Northern operation
・Established a locally incorporated company in South Africa in
2011 and in Nigeria in 2012
http://jpn.nec.com/
・Sale of information and communications products, microwave
http://www.nec.co.jp/csr/ja/re
communication systems, and other mobile phone base station
port2008/contribution/con01_
facilities
1.html
・Sold and delivered microwave communication systems in over
http://jpn.nec.com/
40 countries in Africa
http://www.nec.co.jp/csr/ja/re
Algeria, ・The company received an order for a national fingerprint
Angola, port2008/contribution/con01_
Kenya, Egypt, authentication ID system in South Africa and the system started
13 NEC South Nigeria A,B,D 3.html
Tanzania Tunisia, to operate in 2002. In 2008, the system was renewed to
Africa http://techtarget.itmedia.co.jp
Morocco become the world’s largest registration system, capable of
/tt/news/0805/21/news04.ht
registering as many as 50 million people.
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・The company has representative offices in Kenya, Morocco,
http://www.nec.co.jp/csr/ja/re
Egypt, and Algeria, and has a branch office in Tunisia.
port2008/contribution/con01_
・Sold and delivered radio broadcasting equipment in Tanzania
2.html
and mobile telephone networks in Angola
・NEC Telecommunication and Information Technology, Ltd., a
Electric
Turkish corporation, has a branch office in Egypt.
al, ・Established a battery manufacturing company in Tanzania in
electro 1966, which manufactures batteries (100 million batteries a
nic and year) and flashlights
inform ・Established a representative office in Nigeria in 2010 and in
ation Angola in 2011
Ethiopia, http://panasonic.co.jp/index3
1 proces Angola, ・Sale of audio-visual products, air conditioners, and broadcast
Kenya, .html
sing 14 Panasonic South Nigeria Egypt A,B,C equipment, etc.
Somalia, http://panasonic.co.jp/ec/co
equipm Africa ・Sold and delivered broadcasting equipment for remote
Tanzania mpany/site/
ent and education to the Education Ministry in Ethiopia
related ・Sanyo Electric has been conducting a JICA BOP FS project on
product solar lanterns in Kenya since 2010, and also conducted a
s survey for the dissemination of solar lanterns in Kenya and
Somalia in 2012.
http://www.hitachi.co.jp/
http://www.hitachi.co.jp/New/
・Manufacture and sale of power generating facilities
cnews/month/2008/03/0303a
・In 2007, Hitachi received an order for boiler facilities for a
.html
coal fired power plant from Escom (a South African power
http://www.hitachi.co.jp/New/
company) (announced the business integration with Mitsubishi
cnews/month/2010/01/0121b
Heavy Industries for a thermal power system in 2013).
.html
・In 2002 and 2005, Hitachi, together with Sumitomo
South http://www.hitachi.co.jp/New/
15 Hitachi Kenya Nigeria Egypt A Corporation, received an order for steam turbine power
Africa cnews/month/2011/10/1005b
generation equipment in Egypt.
.html
・In 2011, Hitachi Data Systems (a US subsidiary company)
http://www.hitachi.co.jp/New/
purchased Shoden Data Systems (a South African IT
cnews/month/2005/09/0920a
equipment sales and service company), obtaining business
.html
bases in South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria.
http://www.hitachi.co.jp/New/
・Sale of medical equipment in Egypt
Note: A: Locally-incorporated companies, B:Representative and/or branch offices, C:Other type of local business operations and activities, D:Trading relationship via local producers, representative and etc. cnews/month/2012/11/f_112 4
9a.pdf
Industr Area Type of
No. Company name Business details Reference
y Southern Eastern Western Central Northern operation
Zimbabwe,
Swaziland, http://www.fanuc.co.jp/index.
South ・Sale of CNC units for machine tools and industrial robots in htm
16 FANUC A
Africa, South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, and Botswana http://www.fanuc.co.jp/ja/ser
Botswana, vice/europe/africa.htm
Lesotho
・Sale and service business activities for information and
communications products, such as servers, ICT platforms, and http://jp.fujitsu.com/
17 FUJITSU B,D IT solutions http://www.fujitsu.com/global
・Covers 52 African countries via local sales agents /worldwide/africa/
・The company has a service center in South Africa.
・Established a locally incorporated company in South Africa in
2012 and sells digital cameras, printing paper, and other
imaging products, as well as medical products including digital http://fujifilm.jp/index.html
South X-ray apparatus http://www.fujifilm.co.jp/corp
18 FUJIFILM Morocco A,B,D
Africa ・Established a representative office in Morocco in 2012 and orate/news/articleffnr_0642.h
supports local sales agents that sell imaging products, medical tml
products, and graphic products
・The company has sales agents in various African countries.
http://www.mitsui-high-
tec.com/ja/index.php
・Established a representative office in Morocco to support
19 Mitsui High-tec Morocco B http://www.mitsui-high-
sales agents
tec.com/ja/corporate/location
/europe.php
Note: A: Locally-incorporated companies, B:Representative and/or branch offices, C:Other type of local business operations and activities, D:Trading relationship via local producers, representative and etc. 5
Industr Area Type of
No. Company name Business details Reference
y Southern Eastern Western Central Northern operation
・Established a locally incorporated company in South Africa
http://www.mitsubishielectric
South and Egypt
20 Mitsubishi Electric Egypt A .co.jp/ir/corp_profile/pdf/201
Africa ・Sale, installation and maintenance of elevators in South Africa
2/p18-19.pdf
and Egypt
・Sale and service business activities for inverters, servo
http://www.yaskawa.co.jp/
controllers, and robots
South http://www.yaskawa.co.jp/ir/i
Electric 21 YASUKAWA A ・Purchased Robotic System, a South African motor and
Africa r_document/businessreport/
al, generator manufacturer, and reorganized it as a locally
96/96_report.pdf
electro incorporated company
nic and
inform
ation
1 proces ・Sale and service business activities, etc. for plant control http://www.yokogawa.co.jp/i
sing systems, controllers and measuring equipment, etc. ndex.htm
equipm ・The company has locally incorporated companies in South http://www.yokogawa.com/io
ent and Africa, Nigeria, and Angola. c/w-locations/area-africa-
related ・Received an order for a control system for coal transportation en.htm
product Angola, and treatment facilities from Eskom (a South African http://www.yokogawa.co.jp/c
s 22 YOKOGAWA South Nigeria A government-managed power company) in 2011 p/press/2011/pr-press-2011-
・Received an order for a control system for floating oil 0630-ja.htm
Africa
production, storage, and shipment facilities in Angola from BP http://www.yokogawa.co.jp/c
(a British company) in 2008 p/press/2008/pr-press-2008-
・In 2003, Yokogawa Electric Korea received an order for an 0825-ja.htm
instrumentation system for a petroleum station in Nigeria from http://www.yokogawa.co.jp/p
Hyundai Heavy Industries. r/Corporate/News/2003/pr-
press-2003-1007-ja.htm
Note: A: Locally-incorporated companies, B:Representative and/or branch offices, C:Other type of local business operations and activities, D:Trading relationship via local producers, representative and etc. 6
Industr Area Type of
No. Company name Business details Reference
y Southern Eastern Western Central Northern operation
http://www.fujielectric.co.jp/
・Infrastructure-related business activities in relation to power
http://www.fujielectric.co.jp/a
supply, railroad services, etc. (manufacture, sale, and service
bout/company/pdf/Corporate
business activities for related equipment) and sale of plant
_Profile_J_201210.pdf
control systems
http://www.fujielectric.co.jp/a
・Sold and delivered transformer units to Eskom (a South
South bout/company/gihou_2013/p
23 FUJI Electric D African government-managed power company) (has sold 45
Electric Africa units in total from 1986 to 2012) df/86-01/FEJ-86-01-027-
al, ・In 2009, Fuji Voith Hydro, which engages in hydroelectric 2013.pdf
electro projects, received an order for large generator motors for a http://www.fujielectric.co.jp/a
nic and bout/company/jihou_2009/pd
pumped storage power plant (4 units x 342MW in 2008) in
inform South Africa. f/82-01/FEJ-82-01-052-
ation 2008.pdf
1 proces
sing
equipm http://www.toa.co.jp/
ent and http://www.toa.co.jp/news/20
・Established a locally incorporated sales company in South
related South 09/090731.htm
24 TOA A Africa in 2009
product Africa http://www.classicacoustics.
・Sale of acoustic equipment for business use in southern Africa
s co.za/
http://www.toa.co.jp/
http://www.toa.co.jp/news/20
South ・Established a sales company for coating equipment for 09/090731.htm
25 ANEST IWATA A
Africa automobiles in South Africa http://www.classicacoustics.
co.za/
Note: A: Locally-incorporated companies, B:Representative and/or branch offices, C:Other type of local business operations and activities, D:Trading relationship via local producers, representative and etc. 7
Industr Area Type of
No. Company name Business details Reference
y Southern Eastern Western Central Northern operation
http://www.isuzu.co.jp/index.
html
・Established locally incorporated companies to assemble and
http://www.isuzu.co.jp/comp
South sell commercial trucks and buses in South Africa and Egypt
26 ISUZU Motors Kenya Egypt A,D any/aboutus/global_01.html#
Africa ・The company has a production base in Kenya.
america
・Sales in 9 African countries
http://www.isuzu.co.jp/press/
backnumber/2006/10_23sv.h
http://www.cataler.co.jp/com
pany/world.html
http://www.cataler.co.jp/com
・In 2001, the company established a locally incorporated joint pany/history.html
South
27 CATALER A venture in South Africa with Toyota. http://www.toyota.co.jp/jpn/c
Africa
・Manufacture and sale of catalytic converters for automobiles ompany/history/75years/text/
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equipm ・In 2007 and 2010, the company, together with Mitsubishi
http://www.kinkisharyo.co.jp/
ent, 28 KINKI SHARYO Egypt D Corporation and Toshiba, received an order for train cars for a
ja/news/news100819.htm
motor subway system in Cairo, Egypt.
2
vehicle
s and
related http://www.suzuki.co.jp/abou
・Established a locally incorporated company in Egypt in 1989
product t/outline/pdf/outline_2012.pdf
and commenced the manufacture of small commercial vehicles
s http://www.suzuki.co.jp/relea
in 1993.
se/d/2007/0213/index.html
South ・In South Africa, the company established a locally
29 SUZUKI MOTOR Nigeria Egypt A,D http://www.suzuki.co.jp/relea
Africa incorporated company for four-wheel vehicles in 2008, in
se/d/2007/0213/index.html
addition to a sales company for motorbikes and outboard
http://www.suzuki.co.jp/abou
engines.
t/producingbase/abroad/euro
・The company has a production base in Nigeria.
peafrica.html
http://www.toyota-
South ・Sale of automobiles via Subaru sales subsidiaries owned by
30 SUBARU D tsusho.com/press/2010/10/2
Africa Toyota Tsusho
0101004-3539.html
・Sale of Dunlop brand products holding rights for trademarks in
20 African countries http://www.srigroup.co.jp/ne
SUMITOMO RUBBER South
31 A ・In 2013, purchased Apollo Tyres South Africa (Indian capital wsrelease/2013/sri/2013_06
INDUSTRIES Africa
company in South Africa), obtaining a sales and production 2.html
base for Dunlop brand products in South Africa
Note: A: Locally-incorporated companies, B:Representative and/or branch offices, C:Other type of local business operations and activities, D:Trading relationship via local producers, representative and etc. 8