THE INFORMATION AGE

In the information age, Mitsui's investments are targeted at industries which will have the highest growth rates tomorrow.

Today, we are in the midst of the third industrial revolution triggered by information technology (IT). The business environment is undergoing drastic changes and is increasingly becoming borderless as the IT revolution transcends industrial and national boundaries. One of Mitsui's core tasks is to strengthen its IT strategy. We are going to promote the organic introduction of IT into our core marketing business and logistics functions. This includes the creation of e-marketplaces which we have already established in the steel sector in Japan as well as in the chemical industry in Asia. Apart from that, we will create new business in various fields of the IT industry and we will further develop our internal information infrastructure to enable us to effectively pursue new business opportunities.