March 11, 2025
For Immediate Release
Company name: IZUMI CO., LTD
Representative: | Yasuaki Yamanishi, President and |
Representative Director | |
(Code: 8273, TSE Prime Market) | |
Contact: | Kiminari Taira, Executive Officer and |
Corporate Planning Department Manager | |
(TEL +81-82-264-3211) |
Notice of Changes in Organizational Structure and Personnel
Izumi Co., Ltd. (the "Company") announces that at a meeting of the Board of Directors on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, it resolved to change its organizational structure and personnel effective April 1, 2025. Details are as follows.
1. Change to the organizational structure
The Company plans to strengthen its organizational structure to accelerate operations, aiming to achieve the Izumi Group's growth strategy.
(Purpose)
- To establish an organizational structure that supports the vision of the Izumi Group's supermarket business, which the Company sees as a key growth driver
- Reinforcing the information security system
- To accelerate innovation in its stores and increase productivity
- To improve customer satisfaction
- To integrate the sales and supervisor departments and strengthen the store support system
- To enhance the public relations, investor relations and sustainability promotion systems
(Main Content)
- The Company will create a New Supermarket (SM) Merchandising Department within the Food Division to accelerate the transformation of the supermarket business throughout the entire Group, including the SUNNY business.
- The Company will establish an Information System Division to strengthen the information management system throughout the entire Izumi Group, based on the innovative reconstruction efforts to address ransomware-inflicted damage.
- The Company will establish an Innovation Promotion Department to improve productivity and accelerate store innovation through collaboration with people in the field.
- The Company will establish the Customer Satisfaction (CS) Department which will administers the Customer Satisfaction (CS) Section and Casher Management Section to improve customer satisfaction. In addition to (3) above, due to the enhancement of the sales planning functions of the Company, it is renaming the Marketing Division to the Sales Planning Division.
- The Company will constructively dissolve the Sales Promotion Division, a supervisory division. The GMS Division and SM Division, which are sales divisions, will take over its supervisory functions to
enhance the store support system.
- The Public Relations Section and the Sustainability Promotion Section will be integrated into the Corporate Planning Division. The goal of this integration is to strengthen the public relations and investor relations systems and the sustainability promotion system, which is closely linked to corporate strategies.
2. Changes in Directors (effective on April 1, 2025)
Name | New Position | Former Position | |||
Daisuke Yamanishi | Deputy President and Director | Director and Corporate Planning | |||
Division Manager | |||||
3. Candidates for Directors to be newly appointed | |||||
Name | New Position | Former Position | |||
Director, Senior Managing Executive | Senior Managing Executive Officer | ||||
Hideki Tahara | Officer and Administration Division | ||||
and Administration Division Manager | |||||
Manager | |||||
Director, Managing Executive Officer | Managing Executive Officer, Tenant | ||||
Takayuki Aoki | Division Manager and Development | ||||
and Development Division Manager | Division Vice Manager | ||||
Note: The two candidates will be appointed following resolutions at the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders and the Board of Directors meeting to be held on May 28, 2025.
4. Career Summaries of Candidates for New Directors
Name | Hideki Tahara | |
Date of birth | August 25, 1968 | |
Main career | April 1991 | Joined The Sumitomo Bank, Ltd. (now Sumitomo Mitsui Banking |
Corporation) | ||
April 2022 | Executive Officer and Deputy Head of Corporate Advisory Division of | |
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation | ||
May 2024 | Joined the Company | |
Senior Managing Executive Officer and Administration Division Manager | ||
(current position) | ||
Name | Takayuki Aoki | |
Date of birth | July 18, 1967 | |
Main career | April 1990 | Joined The Sumitomo Corporation |
October 2019 | General Manager of the Real Estate Investment & Development Department | |
of Sumitomo Corporation | ||
April 2024 | Joined the Company | |
Managing Executive Officer, Tenant Division Manager and Development | ||
Division Vice Manager (current position) |
5. Retiring Director (effective May 28, 2025) | |||||
Name | Former Position | ||||
Tatsuya Mikamoto | Deputy President and Director | ||||
Hiroshi Kuromoto | Director, Development Division | ||||
Manager | |||||
6. Changes in Executive Officers (Effective April 1, 2025) | |||||
Name | New Position | Current position | |||
Senior Executive Officer, Food | Executive Officer and Food Division | ||||
Masamichi Yamano | Division Manager and PB Project | ||||
Manager | |||||
Leader | |||||
Senior Executive Officer and | Executive Officer and GMS Division | ||||
Atsushi Kobayashi | Corporate Planning Division | ||||
Manager | |||||
Manager | |||||
Keishi Okamoto | Executive Officer and Information | Executive Officer and DX Division | |||
System Division Manager | Manager | ||||
Manabu Tanabe | Executive Officer and GMS Division | Executive Officer and Sales | |||
Manager | Promotion Division Manager | ||||
Kenji Miura | Executive Officer and Tenant | Executive Officer and Tenant | |||
Division Manager | Division Vice Manager | ||||
Executive Officer and Sales Planning | Manager of Food Supervisor | ||||
Shin Katayama* | Department of Sales Promotion | ||||
Division Manager | |||||
Division | |||||
Hideki Umeda* | Executive Officer and Lifestyle | Manager of Household Goods | |||
Division Manager | Department of Lifestyle Division | ||||
Executive Officer and Manager of | Manager of General Affairs | ||||
Akiko Jiromaru* | General Affairs Department of | Department of Administration | |||
Administration Division | Division | ||||
Executive Officer and Manager of | Manager of Capacicy Building | ||||
Naoko Tomachi* | Capacity Building Department of | Department of Administration | |||
Administration Division | Division | ||||
Izumi Executive Officer status | |||||
Director and SUNNY Business | Director and SUNNY Business | ||||
Division Manager of Youme Mart | |||||
Hideo Kouchiyama* | Division Manager of Youme Mart | ||||
Kumamoto Co., Ltd., and Manager in | |||||
Kumamoto Co., Ltd. | |||||
charge of the SUNNY Business of | |||||
Izumi Co., Ltd. | |||||
* New Executive Officers |
7. Retiring Executive Officers (March 31, 2025)
Name | New Position | Current position | |||
Yuichiro Kajihara | General Manager of Youme Town | Executive Officer and General | |||
Hiroshima | Manager of Youme Town Takamatsu | ||||
Shinsuke Numamoto | General Manager of Youme Town | Executive Officer and Marketing | |||
Saga | Division Manager | ||||
Takeshi Matsushige | General Manager of Youme Town | Executive Officer and Lifestyle | |||
Takamatsu | Division Manager | ||||