EBRD (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development) sent a delegate of Kyrgyz recycle business for a matching trip to Japan in May, and Truspire received them.  We made such plans for the delegate to visit N-Expo and meet Japanese exhibitors, recycle companies, recycle shops, as they can get up-dated info about the private business counterparts.  Public organizations such as Japan Containers and Packaging Recycle Corporation, Global Environment Dept. of JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency), and Yokohama Municipality Office with its waste processing factory welcomed them, prepared unique materials, and gave seminars for them.  The delegates were grateful for those opportunities.

We are pleased to know business matching dialogues have already been started between the delegate companies and their Japanese counterparts.

(Photo: At N-EXPO)
(May 2023)

EBRD (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development) sent to Japan a delegate of companies in the textile industry of Central Asian countries and Mongolia for getting access to recent technologies and trade opportunities. Truspire helped the event, setting up meetings and accompanying the delegate during their visit.

(December 2022)

With Covid-19 pandemic gradually coming under control, our human resources development assistance contracts have been back to on-site engagements – after the 2 years and a half of on-line jobs. We are engaged in our roles in the business courses at the Japan Centers in Kyrgyz, Uzbekistan, Laos, Myanmar, providing business trainings in production plans, business plans, management strategies and marketing. We helped the management of Xalq Bank (People’s Bank) https://www.xalqbank.az/en/ , the national bank, get the ideas of strategy, critical success factors and introduction of kaizen.

In Kyrgyz, our consultant talked and showed kaizen in the factory of Kulikovskiy https://kulikov.com/ , the country’s leading confectionery.  He also gave the management advice on building the company’s new factory.

Truspire entered business contract with Inter-Active https://www.inter-active.co.jp/

They are exporting fundamental equipment and devices for industries, such as electronic devices, physical and chemical appliances, industrial machinery and plants, and environmental equipment. The company is importing titanium and food raw materials. We are working to help our partner to expand their business, using our relationship with the local companies in the Central Asian countries and regions.

We were engaged in “Assessment of the Agriproducts and Agri processing Sectors in Ghana” to make on-site research to extend kaizen process to enhance sustainability of agribusiness.

(May 2022)

To close the project, we stayed in Palestine for about a month in March and trained the third group to become National Experts. The Senior National Experts, trained through the projects, helped the task.

(March 2022)

Truspire’s operations are also affected by the worldwide spread of the infection.

In Japan, we have been providing consultations on management issues to the management of IT-related companies such as software development companies and food inspection system companies. As people are required to refrain from moving and contacting people, the chances of face-to-face discussions are decreasing, but as mentor, we always try to listen carefully and support the company leaders to proceed with their business decisions with confidence.

Overseas operations are also affected by travel restrictions.
Since May 2019, we have been participating in the “JICA Asia Regional Japan Center Project (business course implementation)” and engaging in human resource development projects. The work is comprised of lectures at the Japan Center (Business Strategy, Business Plan, Consulting leader training, Production Management, SCM, Marketing, Bookkeeping, Financial Management) and management advice to various companies including food manufacturing processors, etc., but since March 2020, all operations have been switched to online.

We have been participating in JICA’s Palestinian Industry Promotion Project throughout the first phase (2017-2020) and the second phase (2020-2022) and making efforts in collaboration with Ministry of National Economy as counterpart to train officials of Chamber of Commerce and Industry in major cities in Palestine and local consultants to become competent consultants who support the industrial promotion of SMEs. For the second phase, we planned to focus on direct visits to companies and advice, but due to limited travel to the site, we are switching to online support from Japan.

We are also engaged in the project “Information Collection and Confirmation Survey on the Promotion of SMEs in Turkey” since February 2021 in the field of Production Control/KAIZEN and Financial/Accounting management.  The online open seminars were successfully made to the SMEs in August 2021.  We are scheduled to visit three cities in Turkey in November 2021 for conducting seminars and workshops and short-term onsite consultation to the SMEs, depending upon the Covid-19 situation.

“Information Gathering and Confirmation Survey on the Sudanese Export Promotion System” (February – August 2021) was the only project that allowed us to travel to the site, and we were able to carry out our work by visiting more than a dozen local companies in Khartoum and two major local cities to investigate and examine the export potential of products, and reported to the Ambassador of Japan to Sudan, the Director of JICA Sudan, the Undersecretary of Deputy Minister of Trade, the senior official of the Ministry of Industry, and the National Chamber of Commerce of Sudan, and STP (Sudan Trade Point), an executive and counterpart of the company. We have made a proposal, based on which Sudan’s export promotion policy is expected to be formulated in the future.
                                                                                                             (September 2021)