Poland and other Eastern European nations are a forgotten economic success story, according to Ruchir Sharma of Morgan Stanley Investment Management in a recent Financial Times opinion piece. The Czech and Slovak Republics, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Slovenia have …
Read MoreWe’ve just compiled our first ever Top 30 for Japanese employers in Italy (see below for updated 2022 version). We’ve thought for a while that Tōyō Keizai underreported the number of employees in Italy, and that it probably ranked fourth …
Read MoreOur latest Top 30 Japanese companies in the UK shows a 1.3% drop overall in employee numbers from 2019 to 2020*, the first fall we have seen in the seven years we have been tracking the Top 30. As most …
Read MoreGermany and the UK are host to a similar number of Japanese companies, and a similar number of people are employed by Japanese companies in both countries. Comparing the 30 largest employers in each country reveals some significant differences however, …
Read MoreThe major Japanese employers in Europe, Middle East and Africa employ over 540,000 people, a 1.4%* rise comparing financial year 2018/9 to 2019/20, even though their global employee numbers have shrunk by around 1% over the same period. As in …
Read MoreWe’ve been tracking the 30 biggest Japanese employers in the UK for over 3 years now, so it seems a good moment as Brexit draws nearer to see what changes they have made over the past three years, explicitly or …
Read MoreI’d been avoiding doing a Top 30 Japanese employers in the UK ranking to accompany our Top 30 Japanese employers in Europe, as officially disclosed data per country are much harder to get hold of than regional totals. But …
Read MoreA regularly cited statistic in the current EU referendum is that 60% of non-European companies have their European HQ in the UK. I have just revised our Top 30 Japanese companies in Europe and found that 16 out of the …
Read MoreToppan will acquire the Citizen ID business of HID Global Corporation, which is in turn owned by Sweden’s Assa Abloy. Although Assa Abloy is Swedish, HID Global is headquartered in the USA, and Toppan say they are acquiring it …
Read MoreThere are over 1,200 Japan-owned companies in the UK employing around 174,000 people. The number employed grew around 2% from 2022 to 2023.*
The top 5 Japanese companies** that have grown the most in the UK 2022-2023 are: