WESTWOOD International, Ltd.

Sales and Engineering Liaison services in Japan

About WESTWOOD International, Ltd.

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Westwood International, Ltd. is a firm to help the North American and European automotive
parts suppliers' activities in Japan to deal with the Japanese car makers.
We provide the excellent quality of services to our clients based on our strong backgrounds, such as,
  * Professional skill to deal with the Japanese OEM customers
  * Broad knowledge on the automotive parts
  * Long experience in the automotive parts OEM business.

We bring various benefits to our clients through our services; for example,
  * Establish the human relationship with customers through sales & engineering approach
  * Visit coordination and interpretation for the client's meetings with Japanese customers
  * Translation for various documents
  * Efficient engineering approval from the customer for the client's project
  * Procurement of OEM parts made in Japan to study customer's design
  * Future program information of the Japanese OEM customers
  * Market information of the Japanese automotive industry
  * Advice how to make approaches to the customers by Japanese way.

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It costs for an overseas company to have a branch office in Japan, considering the various expenses to be spent for the office and employees as shown below.

  * Expenses for the office:
    - Room rent
    - Utility
    - Office equipments (P/C, P/C peripherals, Copy machine, etc.)
    - Office supplies
    - Communication expenses for telephone & E-mail

  * Payment for employees:
    - Employees' salary
    - Employees' pension insurance
    - Employees' health insurance
    - Deposit for employees' retirement allowance

  * Others:
    - Contract with a licensed tax accountant for a settlement of accounts
    - Additional manpower (secretary or assistant) for help if necessary
    - Taxes

In addition, it is not easy to find a skilful person who can be a good interface between your
company and Japanese OEM customers, having expert abilities such as English proficiency,
sales-mind, engineering background, negotiation skill, automobile knowledge, experience in
the automotive industry, etc..

It will be a short cut to use our services if you consider excellent support in Japan for your
sales and engineering activities at reasonable cost.

We are flexible (full time / part time) to make a contract with a client so that our service rate
may meet the client's budget for the Japanese OEM business.

We will show you our basic plan for the service rate and other conditions when you contact
us.