{"id":19522,"date":"2026-01-12T20:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T20:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/19522\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T20:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T20:47:08","slug":"japans-makita-targets-power-tool-sales-in-africa-south-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/19522\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s Makita targets power tool sales in Africa, South America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/companies\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Companies<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Construction boom in emerging markets brings opportunity amid US, Europe slowdowns<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/5\/5.jpeg\" alt=\"20260112N Makita power tool\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Building construction and other infrastructure development is growing in Africa, raising demand for higher-performance power tools.\u00a0(Makita)<\/p>\n<p>TAKUYA MICHIUE<\/p>\n<p>January 13, 2026 05:01 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">NAGOYA, Japan &#8212; Japan&#8217;s Makita plans to bolster power tool sales in emerging markets, looking to areas with high construction demand for growth amid an ongoing slump in developed countries, including its main market in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Companies Construction boom in emerging markets brings opportunity amid US, Europe slowdowns Building construction and other infrastructure development&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[63,12288,12283,12284,7976,12287,1044,12285,12286],"class_list":{"0":"post-19522","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-japans","11":"tag-makita","12":"tag-power","13":"tag-sales","14":"tag-south","15":"tag-targets","16":"tag-tool"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}