Mitsubishi Corp plans to beef up its information technology and telecommunications services in North, Central and South America. The company has appointed executive vice president Hironori Aihara to be chief executive for the Americas, with a high degree of autonomy to pursue mergers and acquisitions, and to make corporate investments. One of the first concrete acts of Mitsubishi International Corp will be to set up a headquarters for the Americas, focused on leading an e-commerce business charge. The new e-commerce unit is expected to launch on March 1 2000 – the same day that Mitsubishi plans to open its own e-commerce office in Japan.
