The company and the Department

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• ITOCHU Corporation, Sogo Shosha with an historical past
• ITOCHU France, the tricolore antenna
• The department specialized in fiber optics and TELECOM

ITOCHU Corporation, Sogo Shosha with an historical past

The founder of ITOCHU Corporation was Chubei Itoh, who created a first store drapery, Benchu in 1859 in the port of Nagasaki. Despite volatile markets, has expanded rapidly around Benchu 3 axes: Itoh Honten (headquarters located in Osaka), Itoh Gaiyo-gumi (the Trading House) and Itoh Itomise (the spinning). In turning to the world trade, not content with the domestic market, and maintaining good relations between management and employees, Itoh managed to keep a healthy and profitable business.

In 1903, the relay passed to his son Seiichi aged only 17. This was a great supporter of globalization, which has its studies in England. So he opened several offices in China, Korea, Philippines, New York and London and allowed the company to develop. In 1918, particularly because of the war, the company has diversified and changed its name to C. Itoh & Co LTD.

During WWII, the Japanese government imposed restrictions on textile production. Thus, the group starts activities such as timber, machinery, metals, chemical, pharmaceutical and food industries. Offices have continued to open around the world. The company also quickly turned to energy, automation then to the computer industry and nuclear energy. In 1972, C. Itoh is the first Japanese company called "friendly to the Chinese government". But the various oil shocks cease this long period of success.

In 1992, C. Itoh changed its name to ITOCHU Corporation, the name of founder of the Company (Chubei Itoh). The new course becomes "ITOCHU, Committed To The overall good", must be ITOCHU competitive, powerful and attract new customers.

Today, ITOCHU has 816 subsidiaries and associated companies distributed worldwide. The same group has 43 offices in Japan and 160 overseas. Itochu offices are located throughout the world and cover all geographic regions: North America, in Latin America, Africa, Middle East, Oceania, Asia, China and the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States).

Sogo Shosha are the small group of huge companies, nine exactly, who control a third of Japan's domestic trade and more than half of its foreign trade. They support all products of the world: they are universal. Beyond Trade (distribution, import and export of goods and services), they are involved in a number of activities Essential: investment, research and development, transport and funding. Thus integrate all business functions. The Sogo Shosha have a crushing weight in the Japanese economy: they manage 1 / 3 of trade within the country, nearly 70% of imports and nearly 40% of exports.

Today, the largest Sogo Shosha diversified while still engaged in the textile and is very active in the field of new technologies (aerospace, satellites), machinery, electronics, construction, basic industries (metals, petroleum, chemicals, shipping), consumer products and in the distribution of gas (more than 2000 stations).
The major divisions of the company are:

• Textile

• Machinery

• ICT, Aerospace & Electronics

• Energy, Metals & Minerals

• Chemicals, Forest Products & General Merchandise

• Food

• Finance, Realty, Insurance & Logistics Services

• Et bien sur le textile

ITOCHU France, the tricolore Antenna

ITOCHU France did inaugurate the Montparnasse tower in 1973 and is housed in the 35 th floor.
The company has several distinct departments: chemistry, food , textiles, machinery and the historic department: metals become non-ferrous metals. History as originally this department was responsible for the distribution of copper cable from the creation of the subsidiary French but since the advent of fiber optics, he turned to modernity. We also have the service "accounting" as full-fledged Department.

the department specialized in fiber optics and TELECOM

la Société possède plusieursdépartements bien distincts : la chimie, l’agroalimentaire, le textile, les machines et le département historique : les métaux devenus métaux non ferreux. Historique car initialement ce département s’occupait de la distribution de câble cuivre depuis la création de la filiale française mais depuis l’avènement des fibres optiques, il s’est tourné vers la modernité. On compte également le service « comptabilité » comme département à part entière.