Zero Announces Restructuring of Organization and Personnel Change
June 14, 2018
Company name:ZERO CO., LTD.
Code No: 9028 (Tokyo Stock Exchange Second Section)
Representative:
President & CEO Takeo Kitamura
Contact for Inquiries: Director, General Manager of Group Strategy Division
Toshihiro Takahashi
Telephone: (044)520-0106
Restructuring of organization and personnel change have been resolved as follows at the Boardof Directors Meeting held today, June 14, 2018.
The appointment of Director will be formally determined upon the approval at 72nd
Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders scheduled on September 27, 2018.

1. Restructuring of Organization (Effective as of July 1, 2018)(1) Establishment of “OEM Service Division”“OEM Service Division” will be established separating the specific new vehicletransportation business for domestic car makers (OEMs), which is required short term
operation and long term strategic activities, from the existing “Customer ServiceDivision” and “Sales Division”, with aim to respond speedy and effectively to therequirement of customers.
(2) Restructuring of “Group Strategy Division”“Information Systems Department” will be transferred under “Group Strategy Division”
and “Affiliated Companies Department” will be integrated into “Corporate Planning
Department”, with aim to maximize ZERO Group management resources byreorganizing “Group Strategy Division”.
(3) Restructuring of “Sales Division”
In accordance with the reorganized region-based vehicle transportation businesscompleted in fiscal 2017, Fukushima Sales Branch in Sales Division will be transferredunder East Region and Nagano and Yamanashi Sales Branch will be transferred under
Metropolitan Region, based on the logistics blocks, with aim to strengthen thecooperation between sales and logistics.
2. Appointment of Director (Effective from September 27, 2018)
New positionName
Director,
Tetsuya Kiuchi
General Manager of Overseas
Division1

Current position
Corporate Officer,
General Manager of Overseas
Division3. Change of Director (Effective from July 1, 2018)
New position
Name
Executive Vice President
Yasuo Shibasaki
Representative Director
General Manager of Safety andQuality Division
General Manager of OEM Service
Division
Director
Tomoyuki Shioya
General Manager of
Administrative Management Division
General Manager of General
Affairs Department
General Manager of Personnel
Department

Current position
Executive Vice President
Representative Director
General Manager of Safety andQuality Division

Director
General Manager of
Administrative ManagementDivision
General Manager of GeneralAffairs Department

4. Appointment of Corporate Officer (Effective from July 1, 2018)
New position
Name
Current position
Corporate Officer
Mitsuru Uchida
President, Representative
General Manager of Customer
Director of Zero Plus Kyushu Co.,
Service DivisionLtd.
Corporate Officer
Deputy General Manager of Group
Strategy Division
General Manager of Information
Systems Department

Daisuke Tomizu

General Manager of Information
Systems Department

5. Change of Director of Consolidated Subsidiaries (Effective from July 1, 2018)
New position
Name
Current position
Japan Relief Co., Ltd.
Shunji Nomura
Japan Relief Co., Ltd.
Chairman & CEO
President & CEO
Representative Director
Representative Director
Japan Relief Co., Ltd.
President & COO
Representative Director

Shinya Hannya

Zero Plus Kyushu Co., Ltd.
President, Representative Director

Hiroshi Konaka

ZERO Co. Ltd.
Executive Vice President,
Representative Director,
General Manager of Customer
Service Division
ZERO Co. Ltd.
General Manager of South Regionof Sales Department

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