Recent Japanese Investment Cases

Recent Japanese Investment Cases

Packaging

Nippon Paper has entered into an agreement to acquire the Australian listed company Orora Limited for A$1.7 billion. Nippon Paper has been a long term investor in Australia’s pulp and paper industry.

Currently, it is concentrating its business on what it sees as 5 key growth areas: packaging; household paper products/health care; chemicals;  energy; and logs & lumber business. Orora is a diversified packaging company and is also a customer of Nippon Paper through the wholly owned subsidiary Australian Paper.

IT Services

Fuji-Xerox will acquire Australian listed IT managed services provider CSG in a deal worth $140 million.

Fuji Xerox’s parent company is Fuji Film. (In 2012, Fuji Film acquired the Business Process Outsourcing division of Australia’s Salmat Limited.).


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