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Despite concerns about a slowing economy and weakening consumer, Suntory (2587.T) CEO Takeshi Niinami says the US is an important part of the business. In an interview with Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi, Niinami explains that "The US is the center of innovation...so we have to be here."
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Given everything you see in the in the US politically, do you still, are you excited to put money to work in the US? Is the US economy still doing it for you? I mean, is it a growth, you view it as a growth mechanism?
I think definitely because the US is a the center of innovation. Unless we are here, we don't know anything about innovation in the world. So, you think uh um definitely we want to to compete based on innovation that is in the US. And we'd like to take the innovation to other part of the world. Even uh Asia, even in Europe. So we have to be here in the United States and we have to fight based innovation.