This post is also available in: Japanese NYK on the acquisition trail Stolt-Nielsen has confirmed it will sell 50% of its stake in its LNG bunkering and small-scale specialist Avenir LNG to Japanese shipowner NYK. NYK has also expanded its dry bulk business by taking full control of Norway’s Saga Welco, an open-hatch bulker specialist….

This post is also available in: Japanese I recently logged back into an online events platform which I had not used for a couple of years, in order to set up ticket sales for a seminar.  A message popped up saying that in order to continue using the site for sales, I needed to register…

This post is also available in: Japanese The Japanese clutch and automotive transmission manufacturer Exedy is buying Protean Electric, the UK-based developer of in-wheel motors (IWMs) for electric vehicles, for around €30m. Exedy says the acquisition will help it to transform its portfolio to provide new opportunities in the automotive sector as it undergoes “a major…

This post is also available in: Japanese It is five years ago today that David Henig,  director of the UK Trade Policy Project at the think-tank European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE) and Pernille Rudlin, Managing Director of Rudlin Consulting, were the speakers for the Japan Society’s webinar – The Brexit Agreement One Month…

This post is also available in: Japanese Having looked at the largest foreign-owned companies in Japan in a previous post, we thought we’d take a look at the largest companies in Japan owned by European companies in more detail. By employee number, they are: Mitsubishi Fuso Truck – Germany (89.2% owned by Daimler), #3 overall,…

This post is also available in: Japanese We were somewhat sceptical when the Financial Times greeted Mitsubishi Corporation’s $1bn acquisition of Norwegian company Grieg Seafood’s salmon farms as being part of a record breaking acquisition spree by Japanese companies. It seemed that here in Europe at least, Japanese acquisitions had not really picked up momentum…