FORM 6-K
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
Report of Foreign Private Issuer
Mitsui Purchases Additional Shares of Nippon Steel Corporation
Pursuant to Rule 13a-16 or 15d-16
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
For the month of July 14, 2006
Commission File Number 09929
Mitsui & Co., Ltd.
(Translation of registrant’s name into English)
2-1, Ohtemachi 1-chome Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0004 Japan
(Address of principal executive offices)
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Date: July 14, 2006
| MITSUI & CO., LTD. | ||
| By: | /s/ Kazuya Imai | |
| Name: | Kazuya Imai | |
| Title: | Executive Director | |
| Senior Executive Managing Officer | ||
| Chief Financial Officer | ||
July 14, 2006
For immediate release:
To Whom It May Concern
Mitsui & Co., Ltd.
Mitsui Purchases Additional Shares of Nippon Steel Corporation
Mitsui & Co., Ltd. (“Mitsui”) announced today that it had purchased additional shares of Nippon Steel Corporation (“Nippon Steel”). The details of the purchase are as follows:
| Ø Number of shares purchased |
: 23,027,000 shares | |||
| Ø Purchase amount |
: 10 billion yen |
| Number of shares held |
% of total shares outstanding | |||
| As of March 31, 2006: | 21,263,632 shares | 0.31% | ||
| As of July 14, 2006 : | 44,290,632 shares | 0.65% |
Through this purchase, Mitsui intends to further strengthen its long-standing relationship with Nippon Steel, an important and reliable partner, amid the ongoing worldwide consolidation in the steel industry. Mitsui expects to expand its business with Nippon Steel mainly in the two companies’ key areas of strength, such as high-end steel products for the automobile and energy industries.
Mitsui is reengineering its business portfolio as part of the key initiatives outlined in its Medium-term Management Outlook, and is recycling assets through the outright sale and swapping of shares in companies jointly owned by Mitsui and Nippon Steel, and through disposal of shares with limited strategic value.
For further information, please contact:
| Mitsui & Co., Ltd. | Mitsui & Co., Ltd. | |
| Investor Relations Division | Corporate Communications Division | |
| Telephone: +81-3-3285-7910 | Telephone: +81-3-3285-7596 | |
| Facsimile : +81-3-3285-9819 | Facsimile : +81-3-3285-9819 | |
| Email: infoTKADZ@mitsui.com |
Note: This press release includes forward-looking statements about Mitsui. These forward-looking statements are based on the current assumptions and beliefs of Mitsui in light of the information currently available to it, and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors. Such risks, uncertainties and other factors may cause Mitsui’s actual results, performance, achievements or financial position to be materially different from any future results, performance, achievements or financial position expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. The risks, uncertainties and other factors referred to above include, but are not limited to, those contained in Mitsui’s latest annual report on Form 20-F, which has been filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
This press release is published in order to publicly announce specific facts stated above, and does not constitute a solicitation of investments or any similar act inside or outside of Japan, regarding the shares, bonds or other securities issued by us.