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PRESS RELEASE: No.13
September 8, 2008

Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.

Establishing Sumitomo’s First Automotive Wiring Harness
Manufacturer in Egypt


Sumitomo Electric Wiring Systems (Europe) Limited, headquartered in Newcastle-under-Lyme, the UK, with Mike Lawson as president, hereafter called “SEWS-E,” which is a UK joint venture of Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., headquartered in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, with Masayoshi Matsumoto as president, hereafter called “SEI,” and Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd., headquartered in Mie Prefecture, Japan, with Fumikiyo Uchioke as president, hereafter called “SWS,” has established an automotive wiring harness manufacturer in Port Said, Egypt, in order to enhance the supply of automotive wiring harnesses in Europe. The new company is the SEI group’s first automotive wiring harness production base in Egypt.

SEI and SWS are developing the automotive wiring harness business on a global basis and supplying the wiring harnesses to automakers around the world. They entered the European market full-scale in 1990 and have expanded their business by establishing SEWS-Cabind S.P.A. in Italy in 2001 and Sumitomo Electric Bordnetze GmbH in Germany in 2006, both through M&As. Their production bases for Europe are located in Morocco, North Africa, as well as in Eastern-European countries, including Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Ukraine, achieving sales of 200 billion yen throughout Europe in 2007. Given this situation, SEI and SWS decided to enter Egypt to increase their production bases for Europe, considering logistics and production costs from a broad perspective.

Outline of the new company

  (1) Trade name : SE Wiring Systems Egypt S.A.E.
  (2) Location : Port Said, Egypt
  (3) Capital : Egyptian £ equivalent to US$ 10,000,000
  (4) Investment ratio : 100% by SEWS-E
  (5) Personnel : Approximately 1,400, including two Japanese resident officers (planned)
  (6) Business purpose : Manufacturing of automotive wiring harnesses
  (7) Establishment time : July 2008
  (8) Start of operation : August 2009 (planned)
  (9) Sales plan : Approximately 5 billion yen/year in 2010


Contacts for this subject
Public Relations Dept., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
Osaka: +81-6-6220-4119
Tokyo: +81-3-3423-5234
Public Relations, General Affairs Dept., Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Ltd.
+81-59-354-6201