Rustam Minnikhanov meets CEO of Japanese Ibusuki Hakusuikan Company Tadataka Shimotakehara

On March 22, in the Government House of the republic, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov had a meeting with CEO of the Japanese Ibusuki Hakusuikan Company Tadataka Shimotakehara.

The meeting discussed possibilities for cooperation in a number of sectors. The Japanese company expressed an interest in cooperation, in particular, in such areas as tourism and hotel business, medicine and modern medical technologies, petrochemical industry and interaction in the food industry.

Minnikhanov proposed setting up a joint working group following the meeting to look into topics touched upon today and to determine the most promising areas for further development.

"We are actively seeking to work with Japanese partners. We have a lot of projects related to oil refining and petrochemical complex in general," Minnikhanov said. According to him, the proposals made during today’s presentation should be studied in more detail, since they are of interest to the region.

Moreover, issues related to increasing sales of alcohol products made by the local Tatspirtprom Alcohol Company in the Japanese trade networks were also discussed at the meeting.  In particular, cooperation with the largest Japanese distributor companies such as Suntory Group and Mitsubishi Foods is planned in 2018.

As noted at the meeting, Tatspirtprom delivers alcohol under its own brands to 17 countries, including the USA, Japan, Korea, Germany and China.