Press Release
October 2, 2014
To Whom It May Concern:
Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
Representative Director
President and CEO: Tomonori Hayashi(Code No.: 6839 First Section of TSE)

Notice of Personnel Changes Involving Representative Director
This is to announce that the following personnel changes involving the positions of Representative Director andPresident and CEO have been approved at our Board of Directors meeting held today.

1. Reason for the changes
Today, Yoshikazu Uemura, the Representative Director and President and CEO of the Company, expressed, and theBoard accepted, his intention to step down from the position of Representative Director and President and CEO asof October 2, 2014 for personal reasons.

2. Name and title of new and former Representative Directors(New appointment) Name: Tomonori Hayashi
New title: Representative Director and President and CEO (Former title: Director and ViceChairman)(New appointment) Name: Tetsuro Funai
New title: Representative Director and Chairman (Former title: Director and Chairman)(New appointment) Name: Tetsuhiro Maeda
New title: Representative Director and Officer (Former title: Director and Officer)(Resignation) Name: Yoshikazu Uemura* Mr. Yoshikazu Uemura, who is stepping down from his current position, will become a Director
without the right to represent the Company or execute any business of the Company.

3. Brief background of newly appointed Representative Directors
Name(Date of Birth)TomonoriHayashi(March 13,1947)

Career Summary
April 1969
October 2002
June 2005
March 2006
June 2007
March 2008
June 2008
June 2010

Tetsuro
Funai

January 2014
April 1951
December 1952
August 1961
June 2005(January 24,1927)

Joined the Company
Officer of the Company
Executive Officer of the Company
CEO of FUNAI CORPORATION, INC.
Senior Executive Officer of the Company
General Manager of AV Headquarters of the Company
Director of the Company;
President and CEO of the Company
Representative Director of the Company;
President and CEO of the Company
Director and Vice Chairman of the Company
Established Funai Sewing Machine Company
Representative Director of Funai Sewing Machine Co., Ltd.
Founding President and Representative Director of Funai ElectricCo., Ltd.
Director of the Company;
President and CEO of the Company

Number ofshares of theCompany

15,400 shares

12,709,288
sharesJune 2008
June 2010
June 2012
April 1980
October 1998

Tetsuhiro
Maeda(July 4, 1954)

April 2002April 2005
April 2006
April 2008
April 2011
August 2012
January 2013
April 2013
April 2014

June 2014

Director of the Company;
Chairman and Officer of the Company
Chairman and Officer of the Company
Director and Chairman of the Company
Joined Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
General Manager of Technical Engineering Dept., PersonalCommunication Business Div. of Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
Managing Director of Sanyo Telecommunications Co., Ltd.
Vice President, Telecom Company of Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
Executive Officer of Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
Executive Officer and General Manager of Solar Business Div. ofSanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
Managing Executive Officer of Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
Joined the Company
Executive Manager of Strategic Technology Department,Development Technology Headquarters of the Company
Officer and General Manager of Business Department, New BusinessDiv. of the Company
Officer and General Manager of Corporate Planning Div. andGeneral Manager of Business Department, New Business Div. of theCompany (to date)Director of the Company

3. Effective date of the change
October 2, 2014

For further information, please contact
Tetsuhiro Maeda
Director, Officer, and General Manager of Corporate Planning Division
Investor and Public Relations
E‐mail: investor_relations@funai.co.jp‐shares