- Nippon Steel also takes a 7% stake in Safal

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• 8001.JP 12/5/2008 01:55am
  Itochu Purchases 7% stake for ¥300M in South Africa's Safal Steel- Nippon Steel also takes a 7% stake in Safal
  
• 8001.JP 12/4/2008 06:32pm
  Itochu Sanjiu Enterprise Group sold its 45% stake in drug jv to the company and Alfresa Holdings - Nikkei- Terms not disclosed
  
• 8031.JP 11/25/2008 04:09am
  Mitsui & Co Ltd To invest $396M in Australian mining venture with BHP and Itochu; targets iron ore output by 50M tons to 205M tons- Cos. will spend together $5.6B to increase iron ore output at three joint ventures more...
  
• 8001.JP 11/19/2008 11:33pm
  Itochu To take a 20% stake for $710M in China's Ting Hsin- Japan's big trading houses, which have enjoyed bumper years from betting on iron ore and metals, are pushing into the food market, attracted by more...
  
• OSH.AU 11/18/2008 11:58pm
  Oil Search Ltd Enters into a MOU with Mitsubishi Gas Chemical (4182.JP), Itochu Corp- The company plans to conduct a study on a PNG petrochemical plant.
  

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