Kewpie Corporation announced that at the meeting of its Board of Directors held on January 10, 2019, acknowledged a forthcoming retirement of Masafumi Furutachi as Representative Director. As a consequence thereof, Osamu Chonan, Representative Director and President and Chief Executive Corporate Officer, will serve as a sole Representative Director of the Company. He is going to retire from Director on expiration of his term of office as an Director, and thus retire from Representative Director. Expected date of retirement is upon the closing of the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders scheduled to be held on February 27, 2019 (and this applies to retirement from Director of the Company).