The representatives of the leading Japanese firm of Mitsui & Co., Ltd, led by Mr. Shunsuke Nakagawara, General Manager for Russia and Eastern Europe, visited FIPA on 18th May, where they met with the Director Jelica Grujic and her associates.
They discussed the business environment and investment opportunities of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Concrete investment projects in the energy sector for which the Japanese representatives are interested, as well as projects from the agriculture sector, were presented to the Japanese representatives on this occasion.
Mitsui & Co., Ltd representatives have expressed interest in investing in sectors such as energy, agriculture, healthcare and chemical industry.
More than two years, FIPA maintains cooperation and contacts with the representatives of "Mitsui & Co., Ltd, who visited Bosnia and Herzegovina in March 2010 for the first time. On this occasion, the FIPA representatives informed them in detail on the energy and infrastructure sector which they were interested in and arranged them to visit some interesting investment locations where they met with investment opportunities; they also visited some of the B&H companies, etc.
For the second time, the representatives of Japanese companies visited B&H during Sarajevo Business Forum (SBF) from 6th to 8th April 2011 where they were special guests. At the SBF 2011, a FIPA representative met with Mr. Takao Rikukaea, General Manager of the company "Mitsui & Co. Deutschland GmbH ".
They also participated at the "Sarajevo Business Forum 2012" held from 16th to 18th May 2012.
It should be mentioned that FIPA regularly informs the company representatives about open tenders, investment conferences in B&H; it delivers them concrete investment projects and etc.
In fact, it is important to note that the Japanese investors, before taking decision to invest, analysis in detail all business segments and they take long time for decision.