To whom it may concern
January 28, 2003

Company name:Coca-Cola West Japan Company, Limited (CCWJ)

Representative director:

Norio Sueyoshi, President & CEO(Stock code No. 2579, listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange(First Section), the Osaka Securities Exchange (First Section),and the Fukuoka Stock Exchange)

Contact for inquiry:

Ryuji Nakagawa, Corporate Officer and Manager of the
Human Resource Dept.
(Tel.: +81-92- 641-8583)

Announcement of Organizational Changes and Personnel Reassignments

We are pleased to announce that the following changes will take effect as of February 1, 2003, in our organization,responsibilities and offices of executive and operating officers, and personnel assignments:
1.

Outline of organizational changes:(1) A unit for promoting corporate ethics will be newly created, and the corporate ethics-related operations
performed currently by the General Affairs Dept. will be transferred to this unit.
(2) A Secretary Office will be newly created, and the operations currently performed by the Secretary Section ofthe General Affairs Dept. will be transferred to this office.
(3) The Environmental Measures Office will be renamed the Environmental Promotion Office.
(4) A Total Reform Promotion Office will be newly created to promote the medium-term management plan.
(5) General Affairs and Human Resource Dept.
１）The Partnership Promotion Dept. will be abolished, and instead a Manager for Promoting Partnership,
who will be in charge of labor-related matters in general, will be newly placed in the General Affairs andHuman Resource Dept. The operations currently performed by the Partnership Dept. will be transferredto the Human Resource Dept.
２）The Purchase Section of the General Affairs Dept. will be upgraded to the Purchase Dept.

1(6) Management Control Dept.
１）A Manager for Systems Promotion, responsible for reforming operational processes, will be newly
placed in the Management Control Dept.
２）The Management Planning Dept. and Subsidiary Dept. will be consolidated and renamed the PlanningDept.
３）The operations performed by the Information System Dept., ERP System Dept., and Operational System
Dept. will be consolidated into a newly created Business Systems Dept.
４）An SCM Promotion Dept. will be newly created to take charge of production, distribution, and inventory
planning-related operations.
(7) Sales Planning Dept.
１）A Manager for CS Promotion, responsible for the operations regarding CS promotion, will be placed in
the Sales Planning Dept.
２）A Sales Office Operational Improvement Dept. will be newly created to speed up the improvement ofthe operations in district sales offices.
３）The CS Promotion Dept. and Sales Distribution Dept. will be abolished and their operations transferredto the Sales Planning Dept.
４）A manager will be placed in the Sales Planning Dept. who will be responsible for general control offacilities and operations in the newly-defined Hiroshima district.
(8) Vending Business Dept.
１）A Vending Planning Dept. will be newly created to take charge of the operations for overall control ofvending business-related planning and sales equipment.
２）A Vending Sales Promotion Dept. will be newly created to oversee all the sales depts. The sales depts.
responsible for various districts will comprise:
Okayama Sales Dept., Hiroshima Sales Dept., San-In Sales Dept., Yamaguchi and Kita-Kyushu
Sales Dept., Fukuoka Sales Dept., and Saga and Nagasaki Sales Depts.
Consequently, the Fukuyama Sales Dept. and Chikuho-Chikugo Sales Dept. will be abolished.
３）A Vending Corporate Sales Dept. will be newly created to take charge of the vending-related sales andmarket development activities aimed at large corporations and specific accounts.
(9) Chain Store Sales Dept.
１）A Chain Store Planning Dept. will be newly created to take charge of the operations regarding
supermarket-related planning.
２）A Chain Store Account Sales Dept. will be newly created to take charge of the sales activities aimed atsupermarket-related specific accounts.
３）Sales Depts. I and II will be newly created to oversee the district offices responsible for their respectivedistricts.
(10) Convenience Store and Retail Sales Dept.
１）A Convenience Store and Retail Sales Control Dept. will be newly created to take charge of convenience
stores and general mass merchandising channels.

2２）A Convenience Store and Retail Account Sales Dept. will be newly created to take charge of the sales
activities aimed at specific accounts related to convenience stores and general mass merchandisingstores.
(11) Food Services Sales Control Dept.
１）A Food Services Sales Control Dept. will be newly created to oversee food market channels centering on
dispensers.
２）A Food Services Planning Dept. will be newly created to take charge of the operations regarding foodmarkets-related planning.
３）A Food Services Account Sales Dept. will be newly created to take charge of the sales activities aimed atspecific accounts related to food services.
４）A Food Services Sales Dept. will be newly created to oversee the sales offices responsible for theirrespective districts.
(12) Agent Sales Dept.
１）An Agent Sales Dept. will be newly created to oversee the sales agents.
(13) Miscellaneous
１）A Manager for Special Projects will be newly created.
２）The titles of the heads of the distribution, telephone, and equipment services centers will be changed
from Chiefs of Section to Chiefs of Center.

2.

Changes in the responsibilities and posts of executive officers, etc.
Name

Executive Vice

Yasumasa Niimi

President

New

Current

Assistant to the President

Responsible for Public Relations(responsible for compliance andOffice and Environmental

special projects)

Measures Office, Chief
Financial Officer

Executive Vice

Haruhiro

Assistant to the President

President

Nishiyama(responsible for sales and external

Chief Marketing Officer

matters)
Executive Corporate

Kouichi MoriiOfficer

Responsible for the Total Reform

Manager, Chain Store Sales

Promotion Committee

Control Dept.

Executive Corporate

Masazumi

President of West Japan Customer

Responsible for the Quality

Officer

Gotoh

Services Co., Ltd.

Assurance Office, Chief

Senior Corporate

Nobuo Shibata

Manager, General Affairs andChief General Affairs andHuman Resource Dept.

Human Resource Officer, andProduction Officer
Officer

concurrently Manager, GeneralAffairs Dept.

3Senior Corporate

Junji Katsura

OfficerManager, Food Services Sales

Assistant Chief Marketing

Control Dept.

Officer for Special Assignments
Chief Systems Officer

Senior Corporate

Tadatsugu

Manager, Management Control

OfficerHaradaDept.

Senior Corporate

Yuji Yamasaki

President of Cola-Cola West JapanAssistant Chief Marketing

Vending Co., Ltd.

Officer for Special Assignments
Manager, Operations Dept.

Officer
Corporate Officer
Corporate Officer

Sohtaroh

Manager, Convenience Store andAkatsuka

Retailer Sales Dept.

Masayuki

Project Manager

Manager, Subsidiary
Sales Manager, Saga andYamasaki

Management Dept.

Corporate Officer

Masuo Miyake

Manager, Agent Sales Dept

Corporate Officer

Tatsuhiko Ike

Manager, Chain Store Management

Sales Manager, Territory WideDept.

Operations

Corporate Officer

Toshinori Seto

Manager for PartnershipManager, Partnership Promotion

Promotion, General Affairs andDept.

Nagasaki District

Human Resource Dept.
Corporate Officer
Corporate Officer

Hayao Ogawa

Manager for CS, General Affairs

Sales Manager, Okayama

and Human Resource Dept.

District

MasamiManager, Vending Sales Promotion

Sales Manager, HiroshimaNomiyama

Dept.

DistrictSpecialKouichiManager, Sales Services Dept. andManager, Sales Services Dept.

Management Officer

Watanabeconcurrently, Chief, Equipment

and concurrently, Chief,

Services Center

Equipment Services Center

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3.

Reassignments among manager-level executives
NameNew

Current

Shoichiro Aitani

Manager, Secretary Office

Chief, Secretary Section

Kazunori Shikajima

Manager, Environmental Promotion Dept.

Manager, Environmental

Hideki Tachibana

Manager, Total Reform Promotion OfficeMeasures Office
Assistant Manager,
Medium-Term Management
Project Secretariat
Shuichi Nonaka

Manager, General Affairs Dept.

Manager, General Affairs Dept.,

Yoshi Yamamura

Manager, Purchase Dept.

President, Coca-Cola West Japan

Yasuyuki Akai

Manager for System Promotion, Management

Manager, Operation Systems

Control Dept.

Dept.

Manager, Planning Dept.

Manager, Management PlanningWest Japan Beverage Co., Ltd.
Vending Co., Ltd.

Yuichi Takeda

Dept. and concurrently, Chief,
Planning Section
Naotake Tokieda

Manager, Business Systems Dept.

Manager, Information SystemsDept.

Hisamitsu Nonaka

Manager, SCM Promotion Dept.

Vice President, LOGICOMMakoto Yanase

Manager, Sales Office Operational

Manager, Subsidiary

Improvement Dept.

Management Dept.

Manager, Sales Planning Dept.

Manager, Sales and Distribution

Japan Co., Ltd.

Toshio Fukami

Dept., and concurrently, Chief,Hiroshima Delivery Center
Yasutsugu Nakajima

Manager for Controlling Newly-DefinedManager, CS Promotion Dept.

Hiroshima District, Sales Planning Dept., andconcurrently, Chief, Hiroshima Delivery Center
Takeo Okazaki

Manager, Operations Dept.

Manager for Special
Assignments, Operations Dept.

Yoshinori Yuda

Manager for Sales Services, Sales Services

Manager Responsible for Sales

Dept., and concurrently, Chief, Fukuoka

Services, Sales Services Dept.;

Telephone Center

Chief, Fukuoka Telephone
CenterTomoharu OuhataManager, Vending Planning Dept.

Manager for Full Services,
Vending Business Dept.

Susumu Miyoshi

Manager, Vending Corporate Sales Dept.

Manager, Market Development
Dept.

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Hidenori Ishibashi

Sales Manager, Okayama District

Sales Manager, San-In District

Takanori Wareari

Sales Manager, Hiroshima District

Sales Manager, Fukuyama

Takanori Morishima

Sales Manager, San-In District

Assistant Sales Manager, San-In

Shigeyuki Mizuta

Sales Manager, Yamaguchi and Kita-Kyushu

Assistant Sales Manager,District

Hiroshima DistrictDistrictDistrict

Kakashi Himeno

Sales Manager, Saga and Nagasaki District

Sales Manager,
Chikuho-Chikugo District

Kiichi Okazaki

Manager, Chain Store Planning Dept

Assistant Manager for AccountManagement, Chain Store Sales
Control Dept.

Norimasa YoshiokaManager, Chain Store Account Sales Dept.

Manager for Sales Promotion,

Mitsutoku Muraoka

Manager, Sales Dept. I, Chain Store Sales

Assistant Manager for AccountControl Dept.

Management, Chain Store Sales

Chain Store Sales Control Dept.

Control Dept.
Kiyotoshi Masubuchi

Manager, Sales Dept. II, Chain Store Sales

Assistant Manager for Category

Control Dept.

Management, Chain Store SalesControl Dept.

Akira Yamauchi

Manager, Convenience Store and Retailer

Manager, Market Development

Account Sales Dept.

Dept.

Yoshimoto Asahara

Manager, Food Services Planning Dept.

Manager, Sales Planning Dept.

Takao Noda

Manager, Food Services Account Sales Dept.

Assistant Manager for Food
Services, Territory WideOperations Dept.

Toshihiko Suetsugu

Manager, Food Services Sales Dept.

Manager, Dispenser Fukuoka
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