Naoyuki Akikusa, chairman and chief executive officer with Fujitsu

Updated: 2007-01-08 07:58

Fujitsu's revenues from markets outside Japan account for 30 percent of its global total, but the company aims to grow that to 50 percent by 2010.
China and the United States are two key places Fujitsu will target to help achieve its goal.
"The information technology and communications technology market in China still has yet to completely mature, so we hope to continue the expansion of our hardware, software and outsourcing businesses," says Naoyuki Akikusa.
Now, 60 percent of Fujitsu's 18,000 employees in China work in factories, but the firm plans to raise the proportion of non-manufacturing jobs to roughly the same level, Akikusa says. The majority of new jobs will be in the IT solutions and services division.
Since 2001, Fujitsu has maintained an average annual growth of 27 percent.