Announcement of Changes of Organizational Structure, Assignment for and Personnel Changes Hyogo, Japan January 31, 2018 TOYO TIRE & RUBBER CO., LTD. (President & CEO: Takashi Shimizu) announces the following changes to organizational structure, the assignment of and other Personnel Changes. 1. Organizational Structural Changes (Effective February 1, 2018) In January 2017, TOYO TIRE & RUBBER revised its organizational structure by operational function with the intention of reinforcing management through coordination among each Headquarter; production, sales, R&D and other corporate functions. On this occasion, TOYO TIRE & RUBBER carries out the following organizational changes to intend higher-quality business operations and strengthen the management foundation. <Details of Organizational Changes> [Corporate ] The Business Restructuring (change of name from Global Project Development Dept.) and the Compliance & Legal are relocated under this. The Brand Communications Dept. is relocated under the Corporate Planning. [Business ] (Newly established) Under this, the Business Strategy is newly established, and the Product Planning and Procurement are relocated. The Business Administration Dept. (change of name from Cost Management Dept.) is relocated under the Business Strategy. The SCM is eliminated, and under this the SCM Administration Dept. and the Logistics Dept. are relocated. The Global Marketing Dept. is newly established under the Product Planning. [, ] (Change of name from & Compliance ) Under this, the is relocated. [Fundamental Production Engineering ] (Change of name from Environment, Safety, Engineering ) Under this, the Global Supply Development is relocated. The Global Supply Planning Dept. is newly established under the Global Supply Development.
[R&D ] The Materials Development Dept. is re-established under R&D No.1, integrating the Tire Materials Development Dept. and the Rubber Material Development Dept. The Automotive Parts Production Technology Dept. and the Automotive Parts Testing Dept. are newly established under R&D No.2. The Polyurethane Products Development Dept. is eliminated. [Production ] Under this, the Domestic Production and the International Production are newly established, dissolving the Production. The Plant Administration Dept. is eliminated. [Sales ] The International Sales Dept. No.1 and the International Sales Dept. No. 2 are newly established under the International Sales, dissolving the International Sales Dept. The Global O.E. Sales Dept. is eliminated. [Americas Business Development ] (Change of name from North American Business Development ) The North American Business Development Dept. changes its name to Americas Business Development Dept. Now, TOYO TIRE & RUBBER takes a posture of responding to the recent Digital Revolution (AI/IoT) and various trends in the automobile industry (Connected, Autonomous, Shared & Service, Electric) etc. by working through key projects across the company and in-house committees, in addition to all related divisions. 2. Changes of Assignment for s (Effective January 1, 2018) Tomoshige Mizutani President & CEO, Toyo Tire North America OE Sales LLC Senior Chairman, Toyo Tire U.S.A. Corp Chairman & CEO, Nitto Tire U.S.A. Inc. Kenichi Ueda General Manager,, Quality Assurance & Compliance
3. Personnel Change (Effective January 1, 2018) Noriyuki Isobe Deputy General Manager, Quality Assurance 4. Retirement of (Effective January 31, 2018) Yukio Shinozaki Retirement Corporate Planning 5. Changes of Assignments for Directors and s (Effective February 1, 2018) Tetsuo Tatara Director, Senior Tamotsu Sakuramoto Masaji Ishino Shinji Tanabe Kenichi Ueda Fundamental Production Engineering Corporate Planning, Corporate Chief Compliance officer Compliance Supervisor Business Restructuring, Corporate,, Quality Assurance, Environment & Safety Environment, Safety & Production Engineering Global Project Development Dept. Chief Compliance officer, Compliance Supervisor, & Compliance, Quality Assurance & Compliance Director, Senior Chief Risk Management Officer Corporate Deputy General Manager, Seismic Rubber Task Force Senior Corporate Officer, Seismic Rubber Task Force Senior
Masao Takiwaki Hidefumi Uematsu Tatsuo Mitsuhata Hideaki Takahashi Corporate Chairman, Toyo Tire Japan Co., Ltd. Americas Business Development & Compliance North American Business Development Compliance & Legal, Legal Dept., Domestic Sales, Sales Business Corporate, Procurement 6. Assignments for New s (Effective February 1, 2018) Noriyuki Dan, Business Business Strategy SCM Hirokazu Miyabe Satoru Moriya Noriyuki Isobe,, Quality Assurance, Environment & Safety Safety & Emergency Management Dept., Deputy General Manager,, Quality Assurance & Compliance Administration, Corporate R&D No.1, R&D 7. Personnel Changes (Effective February 1, 2018) Yoshiyuki Morikuni Brand Communications Dept., Corporate Planning Brand Communications Dept., Product Planning
Akifumi Kishi Kazuhiko Kitano Takehiro Sakai Junichi Uda Makoto Komai Yoshiyuki Ichikawa Masateru Adachi Naoki Nishikawa Yoshiyuki Nomura Toshiya Kimura Yasufumi Higashira Takeshi Nishigami Business Administration Dept., Business Strategy SCM Administration Dept., Business Strategy Logistics Dept., Business Strategy Product Planning Dept., Product Planning Global Marketing Dept. International Technical Service Dept., Quality Assurance Global Supply Planning Dept., Global Supply Development Domestic Production Plant Manager, Sendai Plant, Domestic Production International Production Production Management Dept. Materials Development Dept., R&D No.1 Cost Management Dept., Administration SCM Administration Dept., SCM Logistics Dept., SCM North American Business Development Dept. International Technical Service Dept., Quality Assurance Product Planning Dept., Product Planning Plant Manager, Sendai Plant, Production Section Manager, Production Section, Sendai Plant, Production Production Plant Administration Dept., Production Tire Materials Development Dept., R&D No.1 Toyo Tires Logistics Co., Ltd. Chairman, Toyo Automotive Parts (Guangzhou) Co., Ltd. Toyo Chemical Industrial Products Co., Ltd.
Yosei Kodama Makoto Suzuki Masato Furukawa Keishi Inoue Hao Sun Automotive Parts Production Technology Dept., R&D No.2 Automotive Parts Testing Dept., R&D No.2 Americas Business Development Dept., Americas Business Development International Sales Dept. No.1, International Sales International Sales Dept. No.2, International Sales Section Manager, R&D No. 2 Section, Kuwana Plant, Production Rubber Products Development Dept., R&D No.2 International Technical Service Dept., Quality Assurance Toyo Tyre (UK) Ltd. Global O.E. Sales Dept., Original Equipment Sales 8. Personnel Change of Subsidiary Company (Effective February 1, 2018) Nobuo Yoshida Toyo Tyre (UK) Ltd. Of International Sales Dept., temporarily transferred to Toyo Tire Europe GmbH Corporate Communications Planning Dept. Head Office Telephone: +81-72-789-9110 Facsimile: +81-72-773-3272 Tokyo Branch Office Telephone: +81-3-5822-6621 Facsimile: +81-3-3865-2240