February 16, 2017
Company name: Nitta Gelatin Inc.
Representative: Koichi Ogata, Representative Director and President(Stock code: 4977; First Section of Tokyo Stock Exchange)
Contact: Toru Tamaoka, Director and Executive Officer
General Manager of Administration Division
Tel: +81-72-949-5381

Notice Regarding Change in Organization and Personnel
Nitta Gelatin Inc. hereby announces that at a Board of Directors meeting held on February 16,
2017, the Company passed a resolution regarding various changes in its organization andpersonnel, with details as follows.

1. Change in Organization (Effective March 21, 2017)
The Gelatin Division, Peptide Division, Food Division, and International Business Division
will be abolished, and a Manufacturing Division and Research and Development Center willbe established. Together with the Sales & Marketing Division and Adhesives Division, thisreorganization will result in an organization comprising four divisions. The new organization
will formulate market-specific strategies and promote global management.
The Manufacturing Division will be made up of five departments: the Global Production
Management Department, Planning Department, Process & Product Department, Osaka Plant,and Collagen Casings Promotion Department. The Research and Development Center
conducts research and development into products for the food market, products for the healthand beauty market, and products for the biomaterials market, and also conducts basic research
into new businesses.
The Sales & Marketing Division will be reorganized, and the Global Sales Management
Department, Sales & Marketing Department I, Sales & Marketing Department II, andLogistics Department will be positioned under it. Sales & Marketing Department I will
mainly administer food market operations, and Sales & Marketing Department II willadminister health and beauty market operations.

2. Change in Personnel (Effective March 21, 2017)
Name
Raymond Merz

New Position
Director and Executive Officer
General Manager of Manufacturing Div.

Hiroshi Nitta

Director and Executive Officer
General Manager of Research and DevelopmentCenterManaging Executive Officer
Deputy General Manager of Manufacturing Div.
and General Manager of Process & Product
Dept.
Executive Officer
General Manager of Global Production
Management Dept., Manufacturing Div.
Executive Officer
Manufacturing Div.
Executive Officer
General Manager of Global Sales Management
Dept., Sales & Marketing Div.
Executive Officer
General Manager of Collagen Casings
Promotion Dept., Manufacturing Div. andSenior Vice President, Nitta Casings Inc.

Takeo Yamaki

Hidenori Takemiya

Yuji YamamotoSeiichi Nishikawa

Norifumi Nagaoka

NameShinya Takahashi
Koji Wada
Setsuo Takahashi
Satoshi Kosuga

New Position
General Manager of Manufacturing Div.
Dispatched to Nitta Gelatin India Ltd.
General Manager of Quality Assurance Dept.
General Manager of Logistics Dept.,
Sales & Marketing Div.
General Manager of Sales & Marketing Dept. I,
Sales & Marketing Div.

Ikuo Okumura

General Manager of Sales & Marketing Dept. II,
Sales & Marketing Div.

Keiji Suzuki

General Manager of Planning Dept.,
Manufacturing Div.

Mitsuhiro Yoshimura

Osaka Plant Manager, Manufacturing Div.

Current Position
Director and Executive Officer
General Manager of Manufacturing
International Business Div.
Director and Executive Officer
General Manager of Food Div.
Managing Executive Officer
Dispatched to Nitta Gelatin India Ltd.

Executive Officer
General Manager of Peptide Div.
Executive Officer
Plant Manager, Gelatin Div.
Executive Officer
General Manager of Gelatin Div.
Executive Officer
Deputy General Manager ofInternational Business Div. andGeneral Manager of Collagen Casings
Dept., International Business Div.
Current Position
General Manager of Quality Assurance
Dept.
Manager of Peptide Div.
General Manager of Planning &Management Dept., Gelatin Div.
General Manager of Sales & MarketingDiv.
Dispatched to Nitta Gelatin Foods Inc.
Manager of Sales & Marketing Div.
Dispatched to Nitta Gelatin VietnamCo., Ltd.
General Manager of Global GelatinManagement Dept.,
International Business Div.
General Manager of Production Dept.,
Gelatin Div.