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Photo 1) On November 20, LS Cable & System signed a contract to establish a JV with M.A.N. in Cairo. From right: LS C & S CFO Sang-ho Lee, LS C & S President & CEO Roe-hyun Myung, the Korean Ambassador to Egypt Yeo-cheol Yoon, Egypt Power Transmission Agency President Sabah Mashali, M.A.N. President (Mohamed Ali Abdellah), M.A.N CEO Nan Tawfik

■ First production subsidiary in Africa, market expansion in Africa/ME/EU

■ Competitiveness secured in global hub regions through “greenfield” investment

 On November 21, LS C & S (President & CEO Roe-hyun Myung) announced that they will be establishing a joint power cable subsidiary in Egypt.

 This is LS C & S’s first production subsidiary in Africa. With Egypt as the hub, they will be expanding their market presence into Africa and Middle East countries.

 On November 20, LS C & S signed a contract with M.A.N. International Contracting (hereafter M.A.N.), a well-established cable construction company in Egypt, to establish a production subsidiary.

 The JV will complete construction of a factory in the 10th of Ramadan City near Cairo by the end of 2020 and produce overhead power cables. The construction cost for overhead wires installed on steel towers between power plants and substations is lower compared to underground lines, and the demand is increasing in Africa, Middle East, Asia, etc. 

 LS C & S President & CEO Roe-hyun Myung said, “Export barriers are increasing globally, with protective policies for domestic cable companies being reinforced, etc. LS C & S is enhancing its competence through its ‘greenfield’ strategy, where it makes direct investment to key hub countries.”

Egypt accounts for 15% of Africa’s cable market, and demand is continuously growing due to urbanization. However, the competitiveness of Korean companies seeking to export products has been weak due to tariffs that are as high as 20% not to mention logistics costs and so on.

 LS C & S’s strategy is to secure cost competitiveness through local production, and quality competitiveness through the production of premium-grade products which are difficult for local companies in Egypt to produce.

 Furthermore, LS C & S expects that exports will be secured for countries with whom Egypt has signed a Free Trade Agreement (FTA), such as African, European, and Middle East countries.

 With the establishment of its Egyptian subsidiary, LS C & S now has a total of 11 overseas production subsidiaries, including those in the U.S., China, Vietnam and Poland.


Photo 2) On November 20, LS C & S President & CEO Roe-hyun Myung (right) signed a contract to establish a JV with M.A.N President Mohamed Ali Abdellah in Cairo, Egypt.