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Sumitomo Corporation: Your Global Partner in Business

A Brief Introduction to Sumitomo Corporation

Sumitomo Canada Limited puts the global into your global supply chain management solutions as the Canadian subsidiary of Sumitomo Corporation, one of Japan's major integrated trading and investment business enterprises. (Soga Shosha)

Sumitomo Corporation has long been one of the world’s largest businesses in terms of sales volume and plays a key global role in the exchange of goods, services and technology among nations and cultures.

In recent years, the scope of Sumitomo’s business has expanded from that of a trader to become an investor, financier, solutions provider, business catalyst and a joint venture partner to all types of companies on a worldwide scale.

As such, we are the kind of partner that can help your business secure the resources you need anywhere in the world at the most competitive prices. We also have the solid financial base to help you finance large transactions and the expertise to ease your goods through the customs process. And as the owner/operator of our own worldwide shipping and logistics companies, we can deliver these goods from point to point with our own ships and trucks.  

Sumitomo Canada Limited (SCL) currently has four offices in Canada: our headquarters in Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal and Toronto.

Sumitomo Corporation 2003 Financials (in US$):

Trading Volume: $76.9 billion

Trading Profit: $4 billion

Net Income: $236 million

Total Assets: $40.5 billion

Shareholder’s Equity: $5 billion

Employees: 4,772 [31,589 including Sumitomo Corporation Group Companies]

Sumitomo Business Network

132 offices in 73 countries

16 offices in North America

Global Relationships

More than 100,000 client relationships worldwide

767 associated companies & subsidiaries worldwide

The Companies You’ll Keep

The Sumitomo companies are a group of Japanese industrial, financial, and commercial enterprises that share a common ancestry dating back nearly four centuries. The companies are engaged in a broad spectrum of businesses and are firmly established in today’s interdependent world economy.

As each enterprise is managerially and financially independent, the Sumitomo Companies share a mutual adherence to the business precepts handed down by the founder of House of Sumitomo in the middle of the 17^th century emphasizing integrity, sound management and a progressive attitude.

The distinctive igeta (well frame) symbol, adopted as the company emblem by the many Sumitomo companies, represents a frame placed around a well in old Japan is symbolic of the freshness in spirit and substance we bring to our many business endeavors.

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Last modified: 05/13/04