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About us

Deep understanding of cross-border business.

Since 2006 we build, fix, run and transfer businesses between Europe and Japan.

How we grew

Every step added a capability.

2006 · Founded in Japan

First mandate: build plant and organisation for Karmann.

2009 · Start of production

First greenfield plant of a German car supplier in Japan.

2010 · Turnaround & M&A

Parent insolvency mastered, sale to Magna, post-merger integration.

2011 · Diversification

New fields: medical industry, solar and renewables, people development.

2016 · HansenBeck partnership

Leadership and team development with the Gustav Käser method.

2021 · Europe base

Presence built out in Germany and Europe.

2026 · The corridor partner

Market access, interim, M&A, strategy, IT and people. One team.

Karmann Japan team at the start of production in 2009
Karmann Japan, 2009. The team at the start of production.
Why CBI

Excellence through implementation.

Inside your team, not beside it

Board seats, interim roles, project leads. We take responsibility for the result, not for a recommendation.

Operators, not slide-makers

Board, managing-director and plant experience in Japan and Europe. We have run what we advise on.

All languages, all sides

Japanese, German, English, in the boardroom and on the shop floor. Our job is not to translate but to implement.

20+years Japan–Europe
20+companies established, restructured, bought or sold
14years: our longest continuous client engagement
5offices in Japan and Germany
Offices

Five offices, two markets.

EUROPE · DACHJAPANCET · UTC+1JST · UTC+9≈ 9,400 km7–8 h time differenceOne team.Same people at HQand at the subsidiary.ReutlingenMunichHiroshimaOsakaYokohama