Sumitomo Corporation Announces Board and Management Changes, Effective on April 1, 2018
February 31, 2018 at 11:53 pm
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Sumitomo Corporation announced that the other personnel changes of corporate officers as of April 1, 2018, they are: Hiroshi Tomishima will change to the position Assistant to General Manager, Living Related & Real Estate Business Unit; Kyo Onojima will change to the position General Manager, Mineral Resources Division No.1; Haruo Matsuzaki will change to the position Assistant General Manager for the Americas, General Manager for South America; Shiko Furihata will change to the position General Manager, Employee Relations & Compensation Dept.; Katsuya Inubushi will change to the position Assistant General Manager for Japan Region, General Manager, Chubu Office; Yoshinori Mukaida will change to the position General Manager, Finance Dept.; Eiji Ishida will change to the position General Manager, Lease, Shipbuilding & Aerospace Business Division; Takashi Yamana will change to the position Assistant General Manager for Europe, Middle East, Africa & CIS; Hiroyuki Koike will change to the position General Manager, Planning Coordination Dept., Media & ICT Business Unit; Tomonori Wada will change to the position General Manager, Planning Coordination Dept., Living Related & Real Estate Business Unit; Masahiro Miyashita will change to the position General Manager, Mobile Business Division; Masahiro Narikiyo will change to the position Assistant General Manager for Europe, Middle East, Africa & CIS, Koji Aso will change to the position General Manager, Construction & Mining Systems Division; Yoshihiko Hori will change to the position Corporate Officer, Deputy General Manager, Energy Division, General Manager, Natural Gas & LNG Business Dept.; Kazumasa Watanabe will change to the position General Manager, ICT Business Division; Gota Iwanami will change to the position General Manager, Automotive Sales & Marketing Business Division. Personnel changes of the employees along with the above personnel changes as of April 1, 2018, they are: Shinichi Watabe will change to the position General Manager, Human Resources Dept.; Yuichi Ogawa will change to the position General Manager, Railway Products, Forging & Casting, Steel Logistics Equipment Business Dept.; Daisuke Kajikawa will change to the position General Manager, Automotive Components Business Development Dept., Hironori Amano will change to the position General Manager, Construction Equipment Sales & Marketing Dept. No.2; Ichiro Murofushi will change to the position General Manager, Construction Equipment Rental Business Dept.; Eita Fujikawa will change to the position General Manager, Transportation Systems & Infrastructure Business Dept.; Eisuke Takenaka will change to the position General Manager, IPP & IWPP Dept No.3; Hajime Kobayashi will change to the position General Manager, Power Plant EPC DeptNo.2; Shunichi Aramaki will change to the position General Manager, Digital Solution Business Dept., General Manager, Open Innovation Dept.; Katsuya Kashiki will change to the position General Manager, Mobile Solution Business Dept. No.2; Wataru Tanaka will change to the position General Manager, Fresh Produce Business (Europe and the Americas) Dept.; Yukinari Shiraishi will change to the position Assistant General Manager, Materials, Supplies & Real Estate Division, General Manager, Retail Facilities Dept.; Manabu Hamamoto will change to the position General Manager, Building Business Dept.; Tetsuya Suzuki will change to the position General Manager, Project Management Dept. for Mining & E&P; Shu Nakamura will change to the position General Manager, Oil, LPG & Offshore Business Dept.; and Eko Permanahadi will change to the position Chief Representative of Jakarta Project Coordination Office. Nobuhiko Yuki to retire from Audit & Supervisory Board Member (After the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders in June).
Sumitomo Corporation is a diversified group organized around 7 areas of activity:
- retail distribution of consumer goods (24.4% of net sales): food products, apparel and accessories, pharmaceuticals, building materials, household and decorative items, etc. The group is also developing a real estate business;
- trading of hydrocarbon, mining, chemicals and electronics products (24%): oil, natural gas, copper, gold, silver, zinc, lead, nickel, coal, iron ore, resins, pesticides, petrochemical products, etc.;
- trading of steel products and non ferrous metals (20%): flat and long steel products, tubular products, aluminum products, titanium, etc.;
- distribution of transportation and construction systems and equipments (15.1%): spatial equipments, landing fields, forest machines, motorcycles, mining operating vehicles, etc.;
- telecommunications and multimedia products and services supplies (8.8%): TV wiring, data communication solutions, film distribution services, mobile telephony, Internet access and computing services;
- development and implementation of civil engineering infrastructures (7.6%): power plants, wastewater treatment units, industrial plants, telecommunications centers, etc. The group is also providing logistics services;
- other (0.1%).