Sumitomo : Malaysia Coil Center Business Company Becomes Wholly-Owned Subsidiary
January 11, 2018 at 11:59 pm EST
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Sumitomo Corporation (Head Office: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director, President and Chief Executive Officer: Kuniharu Nakamura) has increased its stake in Sumiputeh Steel Centre Sdn. Bhd. (Head Office: Selangor State, Malaysia; hereinafter, 'Sumiputeh Steel Centre') from 50% to 100% and made the company a wholly-owned subsidiary.
Since being established in 1980 by Sumitomo Corporation in partnership with the Malaysian law firm Zain & Co. in order to satisfy the requirements imposed by restrictions on foreign investment in Malaysia at the time, Sumiputeh Steel Centre has been providing high-quality coil center services centered on the supply of steel sheets to household appliance and automotive manufacturers who have moved into Malaysia as well as local construction material manufacturers, thereby securing the largest share of the Malaysian market, earning a high name recognition, and helping to create jobs and invigorate the local economy. Now that deregulation has made 100% foreign ownership of companies possible, Sumitomo Corporation reached an agreement via negotiations with its joint venture partner on making Sumiputeh Steel Centre a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sumitomo Corporation in pursuit of its policy of maximizing the corporate value of this subsidiary through even more effective utilization of the resources it has invested therein.
Malaysia's sheet market is expected to see stable growth in future, as Japanese manufacturers' key manufacturing bases continue steady production and as the boom in infrastructure investment plans such as the construction of a high-speed railway connecting Singapore and Kuala Lumpur boosts expectations that demand among non-Japanese and local companies, particularly those in the construction materials sector, will expand.
Sumitomo Corporation has built up its coil center business in Asia over many long years, in the process establishing extensive procurement and sales networks and accumulating quality management know-how. By making Sumiputeh Steel Centre a wholly-owned subsidiary, Sumitomo Corporation is aiming to utilize management resources more effectively and to further bolster its competitiveness and expand its share in the Malaysian steel sheet market, which is expected to see steady growth.
[Profile of Sumiputeh Steel Centre]
Company name
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Sumiputeh Steel Centre Sdn. Bhd.
Location
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Shah Alam, Selangor State
Description of business
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Coil center (processing and sale of steel materials)
Year established
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1980
Employees
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270 (as of December 2017)
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Sumitomo Corporation is a diversified group organized around 7 areas of activity:
- retail distribution of consumer goods (24.4% of net sales): food products, apparel and accessories, pharmaceuticals, building materials, household and decorative items, etc. The group is also developing a real estate business;
- trading of hydrocarbon, mining, chemicals and electronics products (24%): oil, natural gas, copper, gold, silver, zinc, lead, nickel, coal, iron ore, resins, pesticides, petrochemical products, etc.;
- trading of steel products and non ferrous metals (20%): flat and long steel products, tubular products, aluminum products, titanium, etc.;
- distribution of transportation and construction systems and equipments (15.1%): spatial equipments, landing fields, forest machines, motorcycles, mining operating vehicles, etc.;
- telecommunications and multimedia products and services supplies (8.8%): TV wiring, data communication solutions, film distribution services, mobile telephony, Internet access and computing services;
- development and implementation of civil engineering infrastructures (7.6%): power plants, wastewater treatment units, industrial plants, telecommunications centers, etc. The group is also providing logistics services;
- other (0.1%).