Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Where did Mr. Son's donation go?

One day before Mr. Son, CEO of Softbank made his announcement of his intention to donate his personal money, Mr. Mikitatani, CEO and founder of Rakuten Co, one of the most famous EC portal,  had announced that he would donate his personal JPY 1 Bn (approx. 12M USD). And he had already sent his money to some NPO organizations.

OK, Mr. Mikitani san is quick for everything.

MR. Yanai, CEO of FastRetailing Co, whose brand is very famous as Uniqlo, had also donated JPY 1 Bn.

It turned out Mr. Yanai's donation was completed one week faster than Mr. Mikitani.

So, it is very natural for our ordinal people to wonder where Mr. Son's donation did go.

The answer is 'not yet'.  He has NOT even sent just ONE yen to any organizations.

Softbank's PR dept replied that 'Mr. Son is busy. So he is still looking for the appropriate organization to donate for.'
It purportatedly told that the one of the appropriate organizaitions that is appropriate for Mr.Son to donate is one of SoftBank's subsidiary company. If this is the case, is it worth for him to announce that he would donate JPY 10 Bn. publicly?


Meanwhile, thanks largely to Mr Son's announcement about his donation with surprising amount of money, SoftBank became No.1 as most favorable company.

During couple of days, the new announcement of Mr.Son, made with Governor of Kanagawa pref. and Sizuoka Pref. ,surprised every ordinary people that he would invest in solar eletricity generation business in allign with total of 19 regional prefs, and cities.

OK, the annoucement again. He always blows up big balloons before he do anything.
(He is really a genius to get public attendions.)

So, let's see what those project end up with.

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