Deal #545

VIJACHIP (Vietnam – Japan Chip Corporation)

VIJACHIP is a Joint Venture between the Japanese NISSHO IWAI (now SOJITZ Corporation) and the VINAFOR, a State-owned company/with five local forestry companies (according to another source). Sojitz has three directly managed woodchip manufacturing subsidiaries in Vietnam that conduct afforestation projects: VIJACHIP Cai Lan Corporation, VIJACHIP Corporation, VIJACHIP Vung Ang Corporation. *Osaka Gas Singapore Pte. Ltd. and a Daigas Group company together with Sojitz Corporation and Sojitz Vietnam a new joint venture company, Sojitz Osaka Gas Energy Company Ltd., with the aim of supplying natural gas in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. *Sojitz invested in Interflour Vietnam Ltd. (IFV) in 2007. Sojitz began working together with them to expand their milling capacity after that. *In 2011 Sojitz and Kyodo Shiryo Co., Ltd. (now Feed One Co., Ltd.) formed a joint venture company, Kyodo Sojitz Feed Company Ltd. (KSF), for the production and sale of compound feed. *In 2016, Sojitz established Newland Vietnam Japan Joint Stock Company jointly with one of Vietnam's major logistics companies. The company provides modern cold chain logistics. *In 2015, Sojitz partnered with Ministop Co., Ltd. to expand Ministop convenience stores across Vietnam. in 2017, Sojitz established Japan Best Foods Co., Ltd. (JBF) together with NittoBest Corporation, a wholesale frozen foods manufacturer.