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| The ITOCHU Group is a conglomerate comprising 650 companies and 45,000 employees, with networks in every type of business. The ITOCHU Group has evolved and grown over about 150 years with the ITOCHU Corporation at its center, having its beginning in the linen trading operations begun by Chubei Itoh I in 1858. The company has engaged in the domestic trading, import/export and overseas trading of various products such as textiles, machinery, information and communications-related products, metals, products related to oil and other energy sources, general merchandise, chemicals, and provisions and food. Moreover, ITOCHU has made multifaceted investments in insurance agencies, finance, construction, real estate trading, and warehousing as well as operations and businesses incidental or related to those fields. The companies of the ITOCHU Group are active day and night for the betterment of people’s lives. |
