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Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan: Mazars to Sponsor the France Pavilion
25 April 2023 - Mazars, the international audit, tax and advisory firm, has signed on to sponsor the France Pavilion for Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan (“the Expo”), which will be held from 13 April through 13 November 2025.
Based on an agreement signed with La Compagnie Française des Expositions (COFREX), who is organising and implementing France’s participation in the Expo, Mazars will provide support to France as a sponsor.
Mazars provides COFREX with expertise to support overseas investment in Japan and will form an expert team to handle the specific needs of COFREX for this event in relation to international mobility, tax and other compliance matters.
Under the theme of “Designing Future Society for Our Lives” the Expo will be held in Japan, where Mazars has worked for over 30 years. Since 1992, Mazars in Japan has played a key role in providing services to foreign investors and Japanese companies, especially those with overseas operations. Today, it is recognized as a top professional service firm in Japan.
As one integrated team, Mazars in Japan will support COFREX in all aspects of accounting, finance, HR management, regulations, and tax matters, working closely with Mazars in France to fulfill the crucial mission to ensure a success of the France Pavilion at the Expo.
Olivier Lenel, CEO & Chairman of the Management Board of Mazars in France, commented: “I am very proud to contribute to a major event that will be held in Japan. We will take this opportunity to reaffirm our responsibility to contribute to the public good and exert our international partnership for COFREX and the Japan-France friendship.”
Jean-Francois Salzmann, Mazars in Japan Managing Partner, said: “The theme of the Expo 2025 essentially matches Mazars’s commitment to sustainable reform. We are delighted to participate in the Expo in Japan and are determined to dedicate all our efforts for the success.”
Jacques Maire, COFREX Chair and General Commissioner of the France Pavilion at the Expo, commented: “The partnership with the Mazars Group, the new sponsor of the French Pavilion, will bring us many benefits. Full access to its expertise is a great opportunity to ensure, in the very specific Japanese context, a very professional deployment of all the activities of the Pavilion: construction, management and commercial activities. It is a key contribution to the radiance of the Pavilion in Osaka 2025.”
