TTS & MTC: Understanding Our Strategic Capital Alliance – Why It Makes Sense

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Toyota Tsusho Systems (TTS), a leading provider of global IT support primarily for the automotive industry, has strategically invested in Moro Technology Corporation (MTC). This capital investment, concluded in April 2025, gives TTS a 35% share in MTC. This page details the background and purpose of this alliance, and outlines its significance for MTC's vision and future plans.

Purpose of the Partnership: Combining the Strengths of Both Companies to Maximize Delivered Value

In today's complex and fast-paced digital landscape, Japanese global organizations require both scale and specialized agility for their IT and digital transformation efforts.

Through this capital alliance, TTS and MTC will combine their strengths and enhance their strategic capabilities to better contribute to Japanese global companies, including the Toyota Group:

TTS has a proven track record in large-scale IT projects for the Toyota Group and provides high-quality IT solutions globally.
MTC delivers rapid support for overseas projects by providing global engineering technology services. This service model has a proven track record in Europe, and it is underpinned by highly specialized, agile digital technologies and capabilities.

Added Value: The Fusion of Specialization and Global Scale

By maximizing the fusion of the two companies, MTC, with specialized expertise in digital technology, will evolve to significantly contribute to large-scale organizations like those within the Toyota Group. This is unlocked by specific structural and operational advantages this partnership provides:

Focused Agility and Responsiveness: Major IT vendors offer a wide range of services, including infrastructure, development, and maintenance. MTC, in addition, provides enhanced flexible operations. This enables the development of flexible and adaptable solutions, as well as rapid response to specific project needs and new technological shifts, thereby supporting Toyota Group's wide-ranging innovation.
Specialized Niche Expertise and Strategic Insights: MTC has cultivated deep expertise in specific digital technology domains. With this accumulated know-how, MTC can provide not only conventional solutions but also contribute to new innovations. Being grounded in Japanese business culture while also possessing international experience, MTC can also craft efficient and innovative proposals.
Dynamic Utilization of Specialized Talent and Leveraging of Organizational Strengths: MTC's engineering services operational model provides the strategic advantage of engaging highly skilled talent for diverse projects. This approach presents flexible and efficient solutions for skill gaps and lack of expertise for critical initiatives, especially within the rapidly evolving digital technology field.

Global expansion to Toyota Group companies through TTS: Crucially, MTC’s effectiveness within the Toyota ecosystem is significantly amplified through its strategic partnership with TTS. This means:

TTS's Track Record, Established Relationships & Trust: TTS’s long-standing, trusted relationships and track record within Toyota worldwide facilitate smoother interactions and deeper contextual understanding for MTC, promoting the deployment of solutions fused and collaboratively strengthened with MTC.
Affinity with the 'Toyota Way': The common understanding of the 'Toyota Way' between TTS and MTC facilitates efficient functional collaboration and delivers better value to customers.
Responding to Toyota's Needs: TTS swiftly grasps the potential needs of the Toyota Group and proposes solutions leveraging MTC’s advanced solutions and capabilities.
Toyota-Style Kaizen: TTS supports MTC in understanding the challenges faced by Toyota Group companies and in methods for advancing projects swiftly. Through TTS's assistance, MTC will realize quality management by eliminating 'muri, muda, mura' (overburden, waste, unevenness) through efficient operations and precisely targeted solutions.

What This Alliance Specifically Enables – Key Outcomes

Accelerated Global Expansion for MTC (to provide better services to customers): This investment empowers MTC to expand its operational footprint beyond Europe (e.g., Americas, Africa). Supported by TTS's global deployment capabilities and rich experience, MTC will proactively expand its worldwide internal engineering teams. With digital expertise and IT solutions that can be customized for each customer, MTC will contribute to promoting the global expansion, DX, and AI development of Japanese companies, including the Toyota Group.
Strengthened Operations through Highly Specialized Engineers: MTC's service model and highly specialized digital talent will be able to rapidly support overseas projects through TTS's global network.
Development of a Long-Term Strategic Market Position: By further evolving the collaborative relationship that began in 2019 and enhancing both companies’ shared objectives, MTC will become, step by step, a trusted technology partner, providing higher quality services to Japanese global companies.

Leadership Endorsement – A Shared Vision

Toyota Tsusho Systems President, Hirotoshi Watanabe, said:

“Toyota Tsusho Systems will utilize Moro Technology Corporation's engineering expertise and advanced capabilities to extend TTS’s reach to support the Toyota Group's overseas operations more comprehensively than ever before. Through the enhanced support coverage resulting from this capital participation, we are confident in our strengthened ability to offer our proven expertise developed over many years to Japanese companies operating globally. We look forward to further developing our collaboration with MTC and working to resolve the IT support challenges our customers face at their global operations.”

Moro Technology Corporation CEO, Marios Papanikolopoulos, stated:

“Joining the Toyota Tsusho family through this strategic partnership with Toyota Tsusho Systems is a significant milestone for MTC, reflecting confidence in our vision and team. This mutually beneficial alliance enhances our ability to better serve our clients, especially the Toyota Group, and strengthens our capacity as a global technology partner for Japanese businesses, leveraging TTS’s network and our shared commitment to creativity, flexibility, reliability and quality.”

Our Commitment

Contributing to the Wider Community: MTC is dedicated to fostering global digital collaboration by acting as a bridge between the Japanese and the international technology ecosystems, connecting diverse people, skills, identities, and cultures. As a multinational Digital Technology & Innovation group, MTC will focus on delivering tangible value that contributes to both broader technological advancement and overall economic prosperity.
Contribution to Global Companies: This investment strengthens MTC's overall capabilities, resources, and growth capacity. MTC is committed to contributing to its customers through its enhanced global reach, robust operations, and high-quality solutions.
MTC's Continued Identity: MTC, as a MORO GLOBAL BV subsidiary (65% MORO GLOBAL BV, 35% TTS), will continue to operate and to sharpen its established identity and values: "Continuously Curious, Flexible & Daring, Fair & Honest, Attentive to Detail, and Always Reliable."
Our Team & Future: MTC's organization and core business structure will continue representing its growth foundation. The strategic alliance with TTS brings exciting opportunities for MTC to contribute to larger, more diverse and impactful projects thereby leading to further professional growth for its members.

Learn More & Connect

This strategic alliance aims to deliver further value to our customers and to better serve the evolving digital needs of global enterprises.

To learn more about Toyota Tsusho Systems, please visit www.ttsystems.com.

To discuss how MTC's enhanced capabilities can support your business, please visit us at www.morotechnology.co.jp or contact us at connect@morotechnology.co.jp.