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faced with the increasingly harsh business environment, sumitomo corporation continues to meet its customers' expectations by identifying and enhancing its core competence to respond to changes.
sumitomo corporation believes its core competence lies in its ability to utilize its "integrated corporate strength."
the term refers to an aggregate of our solid business foundation and spanerse functions. strategic and organic integration of these elements allows us to satisfy our customers' spanersifying needs by anticipating change and creating new value for our customers. sumitomo corporation's integrated corporate strength thus serves a wide variety of customer needs.
in the following pages, you will find an outline of our business foundation and functions _ the building blocks of our integrated corporate strength _ and examples of our operations that successfully leverage our integrated corporate strength.