Asahi Group Holdings agreed to acquire Miller Brands UK for an acquisition price of €2550 million (approx. US$ 2.5 billion) to become Asahi UK, as part of Asahi Group’s Europe strategy:
Diesel engine maker Yanmar to partner with generator manufacturer Himoinsa
Yanmar and Himoinsa to provide solutions for energy markets including cogeneration
On April 27, 2015, diesel engine maker Yanmar and electricity generator maker Himoinsa announced a partnership, including Yanmar to acquire 70% of Himoinsa, to strengthen their solution business for energy markets including cogeneration.
Both Yanmar and Himoinsa are privately held companies, so the amount of information released is quite thin, however we can expect this partnership to help Himoinsa to strengthen business in Asia, where Himoinsa is active since 1999 and currently achieves about 20% of business, while Yanmar will be able to strengthen business particularly in the Hispanic parts of the world.
On the technical and product side, we can expect a range of jointly developed products.
Yanmar has supplied diesel engines for Himoinsa generators since 2006.
Himoinsa – “The Energy”
Himoinsa was founded in 1982, and is based in San Javier, Murcia, Spain.
Himoinsa manufactures and markets products including:
diesel generators from 3 kiloWatt to 3 MegaWatt
fas generators from 3 kiloWatt to 3 MegaWatt
diesel generators from 8 Watt to 3.5 MegaWatt
lighting towers up to 1.32 Mega-Lumen
Annual revenues are on the order of US$ 300 million:
50% of revenues in Europe and Africa
30% of revenues in the Americas
20% of revenues in Asia Pacific, where Himoinsa started in 1999.
Currently nine production centers, including:
Headquarters and main factory in Murcia, Spain, including R&D Centre.
Plant Metal 1, Murcia
Plant Metal 2, Murcia
Himoinsa, China in Changzhou (Jiangsu)
Hipower Systems, Lenexa, Kansas, USA
Genelec S.A.S, Villefranche sur saone, France.
Control & Switchgear Himoinsa PVT Ltd, production site at Pantnagar, Uttaranchal, India.
Consolidated revenues: YEN 650.7 billion (US$ 5 billion) FY 2013, ended March 31, 2014
Consolidated operating income: YEN 44.8 billion (US$ 0.37 billion) FY 2013, ended March 31, 2014
Group employees: 16,678 as of March 31, 2014
Yamaoka Magokichi (山岡 孫吉, March 22, 1888 – March 8, 1962) founded the company “Yamaoka Engine Manufacturing” (山岡発動機工作所) in March 1912, trading in gas engines. In 1921 the brand/trademark Yanmar (ヤンマー) was created.
In 1920 the company began to produce small oil engines for agricultural applications.
In 1947 the company began to produced small diesel engines for fishing boats, and in 1952, the company name was changed to Yanmar Diesel KK (ヤンマーディーゼル株式会社).
In 2010 the company adopted the slogan “Solutioneering Together”.
Cogeneration is the joint production of heat and electricity and can save substantial amounts of primary energy compared to the separate production of heat and electricity in separate plants.
Yanmar advertising and branding
ヤン坊マー坊天気予報 (Yanbou and Mabou weather forecast)
In Japan Yanmar became famous for very characteristic and successful advertising.
Yanmar used two mascots (Yanbou and Mabou) for sponsoring weather forecast (ヤン坊マー坊天気予報) on TV between June 1, 1959 and March 31, 2014:
CSC Media Group of UK (formerly Chart Show Channels) owns 19 cable and satellite channels acquired by SONY
CSC Media Group acquisition for UKL 107 million
On June 26, 2014 SONY announced the acquisition of the CSC Media Group of UK for a total of 107 million pounds from the major shareholder Veronis Suhler Stevenson.
CSC Media Group owns and operates 16 satellite and cable channels in the UK.
With this acquisition SONY owns 25 TV channels in Great Britain, and about 64 channels globally.
We believe that with this acquisition SONY aims to strengthen the profitability of content distribution to accompany the restructuring of SONY’s loss making electronics division, which includes the production of TV sets.
On February 28, 2014 Dentsu announced further European investments in its quest to strengthen its global footprint: Dentsu acquires German performance and search agency explido and integrates explido into Dentsu’s iProspect business and brand.
explido GmbH & Co KG – Agentur für digitales Marketing und Vertrieb
explido GmbH & Co KG offers digital marketing services, was founded in October 2002 in Augsburg, Germany, and employs about 135 people.
explido achieved about EURO 11.7 million gross profits annually.
Dentsu and Dentsu-Aegis
Dentsu dominates Japan’s advertising space, and is a very very strong force in Japan’s media industry sector, through control and management of major advertising channels with an overwhelming market share in Japan, and has been working hard to leverage its creative power and strength in Japan into a larger global footprint.
On August 27, 2013 NTT Docomo announced the planned acquisition of the Austrian company fine trade gmbh, which offers payment solutions to e-commerce and m-commerce companies.
The acquisition price has been reported to be “several tens of millions of EUROs”. Docomo acquired
fine trade gmbh offers online merchants over 180 different payment options, billing and collection services, including deferred payments against invoice.
fine trade manages credit risks and evaluates shopping data.
Loviit
Loviit is a payment solution provider, taking care of all payment processing and credit management for online retailers. Loviit enables e-commerce and m-commerce providers to offer a full range of payment options.
NTT Docomo’s growing finance and payment platform business in Europe
Docomo is continuing to build a platform for finance and payments in Europe and elsewhere.
NTT Docomo offers this payment and finance platform as a B2B service to mobile operators, content and service providers and e-commerce and m-commerce markets.
Nidec agreed with Valeo SA to acquire Valeo’s Motors & Actuators (VMA) business for approximately €142 million. The acquisition was agreed on November 14, 2006, and the transaction was completed on December 27, 2006.
Reasons for the acquisition
Nidec acquires sales and business channels into the automotive industry, where track record is required
Talent acquisition of highly qualified in-car motors engineers
Contribute to Nidec’s globalization: VMA operators in Europe, North-America and China.
Valeo’s Motors & Actuators (VMA) business
Business: manufacturing electric motors for automobiles. Motors for airflow systems, body closure systems, seat positioning systems, brake systems.
Employees: approx. 1700
Net sales: €253 million (FY ending December 31, 2005)
Resulting Nidec subsidiaries after completion of acquisition
Holding and administration company: Nidec Motors & Actuators in France
NIDEC MOTORS & ACTUATORS (GERMANY)
NIDEC MOTORS & ACTUATORS (POLAND)
NIDEC MOTORS & ACTUATORS (SPAIN)
NIDEC MOTORS & ACTUATORS (USA)
NIDEC MOTORS & ACTUATORS (MEXICO)
Nidec “everything that spins and moves”
Nidec was founded by Chairman Shigenobu Nagamori in 1973 in Kyoto, and focuses on “everything that spins and moves”.
Learn about Nidec and Japan’s electronics industries
