(2008-05-05)
will open on 7 May in the prestigious setting of the center of Venice International University on San Servolo in Venice, the twentieth meeting of the Italy-Japan Business Group, a body created by the Italian and Japanese business communities to promote greater industrial cooperation between the two countries.
The work of the Italy-Japan Business Group co-chaired by the Chief Operating Officer of Finmeccanica, Giorgio Zappa, and the Honorary Chairman of Shiseido, Yoshiharu Fukuhara, will be opened by addresses of welcome by the Mayor of Venice, Massimo Cacciari and President of Province of Venice, David Zoggia.
addition to the Deputy Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Japan Kenji Ogiwara, the Forum will be attended by President of ICE Umberto Vattani, the Italian Ambassador Mario Bova in Japan and leading figures from business and banking Italian and Japanese, including the former President of Confindustria, Luca Cordero di Montezemolo.
"As a member of the industrial world - said Giorgio Zappa, co-president dell'IJBG - I hope that Japan will attract more and more Italian investments and vice versa, especially to sectors such as ICT and, more generally, and high-tech that can give rise to significant opportunities for collaboration. It is on this and other important issues - such as the commitment to search for alternative energy sources and to protect against natural disasters - we would like to increase collaboration between Italy and Japan. "
"ICE - said Ambassador Umberto Vattani - with its network of offices in Japan maintains ongoing relationships with business associations and institutions in Japan and in particular with JETRO, which performs functions similar to those of our Institute .
Thanks to these contacts, we were able to facilitate negotiations between Italian and Japanese in all areas, providing useful information and suggestions. Thanks also to numerous promotional initiatives, the Institute has promoted the development of Italian exports to Japan, not just in the traditional fashion, clothing, agribusiness, but also in the more advanced mechanics and high technology. The ICE is therefore a true bridge between Italian SMEs and the Japanese and I am sure that our cooperation with India - Japan Business Group, will lead to important results for our companies operating in this important country, particularly in sectors high tech. "
"The Italy-Japan Business Group in Venice and Treviso - said Andrea Tomat, President of Unindustria Treviso - is an extraordinary opportunity for the North East and the entire country. Unindustria Unindustria Treviso and Venice are committed to hard to realize this event to develop intense economic relations between our business system and Japanese. Many companies already operating in Treviso East and Japan. On this occasion, we will present Treviso territory as competitive and innovative reference of excellence in Europe to attract investment and economic activity. "
As highlighted by the President to Unindustria Venezia Antonio Favrin, "This area has much to offer to foreign investors for infrastructure and industrial areas equipped for common industrial culture: our territory hosts several multinational companies for decades of mechanics, chemistry, metallurgy and shipbuilding sectors, they have found here a secure base and a land favored by the centrality of the situation in relation to major roads. The proximity to the Port and Airport of Venice candid, then, in this logical outlet for people and goods in transit to and from Central and Eastern Europe and point of contact with the sea routes from the Far East.
The Italy-Japan Business Group, which the ICE and its Japanese counterpart JETRO provide the Secretariat Office, meets once a year alternately in Italy and Japan.
Established for the first time in Tokyo October 24, 1989, the Italy-Japan Business Group, chaired for 15 years Umberto Agnelli, is the ideal forum in which Japanese and Italian entrepreneurs identify possible areas and forms of cooperation extended (on the industrial and services) to foster the development of agreements and joint ventures. The Italy-Japan Business Group also aims to analyze the obstacles to the improvement and development of bilateral investment and identify the opportunities offered by their 'country systems' including to third markets. (05 / 05/2008-ITL/ITNET)
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