Financial Risk Management at Mitsubishi Corporation

            
 
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Case Code : FINA017
Case Length : 16 Pages
Period : 2003
Pub. Date : 2003
Teaching Note :Not Available
Organization : Mitsubishi Corporation
Industry : Trading
Countries : Japan

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Introduction Contd...

The Mitsubishi group had been hurt by Japan's persistent economic slump. The company was restructuring and reducing its workforce. It had plans to focus on its energy and natural resources, independent power production, and food distribution businesses. In 2002, Mitsubishi recorded revenues of $4,854.5 million and a net income of $454.0 million1.

Background Note

Yataro Iwasaki's close ties to the Japanese government ensured the success of his shipping and trading company, Mitsubishi.

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Founded in 1870, Mitsubishi diversified into mining (1873), banking (1885), and shipbuilding (1887). During the next decade, it invested in Japanese railroads and property.

In 1918 the Mitsubishi zaibatsu (conglomerate) spun off its central management arm, Mitsubishi Trading (the forerunner of Mitsubishi Corporation).

By WWII the group was a huge amalgam of divisions and public companies. During the war, it made warplanes, ships, explosives, and beer.

The zaibatsu were dissolved by US occupation forces, and Mitsubishi was split into 139 entities. After the occupation ended, the Japanese government encouraged many of the former business groups to reunite around the old zaibatsu banks...

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