NISSUI - Press Release

January 26, 2010

Organizational Restructuring, Changes in Responsibilities of Board Members, and Assignments of General Managers

Please be informed that Nippon Suisan Kaisha, Ltd. (Representative Board Member, President & CEO – Naoya Kakizoe) will be restructuring its organization, changing the responsibilities of its Board Members, and appointing General Managers as indicated below.

I. Organizational Restructuring (As of March 1)

(1) Fisheries and Food Products Business Operation Division

The main purpose of the structural reform is to strengthen the marine products business. Specifically, the sales functions will be separated from the procurement functions, with the sales organization modified from a fish species based to a customer based structure, in order to further reinforce customer-oriented sales capabilities. An additional purpose is to promote the creation of and proposals regarding the food culture by enhancing the collaboration between the marine products business and the food products business, which are the Company’s strengths.

1) Fisheries Business Operation-Related
(Establishment of new organizations; transfer of functions)

Deputy Fisheries Business Operating Officer (Sales) and Deputy Fisheries Business Operating Officer (Procurement) will be newly established under Fisheries Business Operating Officer to assist with the duties of the Operating Officer.
The sales functions of Fisheries Business Department 1 and Fisheries Business Department 2 will be transferred to the Fisheries Products Marketing & Sales Department o be established newly.
Fisheries Products Marketing & Sales Department will be in charge of sales to such customers as sea food wholesalers, mass retailers and fresh fish retailers in the Tokyo Metropolitan area, Kanto Shin-etsu area, Sendai, Nagoya, Hiroshima, and Fukuoka.
Procurement functions will be consolidated into Fisheries Business Department 1 (crabs, salmon, fish roe), Fisheries Business Department 2 (shrimp, frozen fish, squid, octopus, shellfish, fish paste (surimi)), and Fisheries Business Department 3 (frozen southern fish) to be newly established. Fisheries Business Department 3 will also be in charge of marine product exports to neighboring countries, in addition to procurement.
Fisheries Products Value-enhancing Department will be newly established to promote the use of marine products as food ingredients.

(Change in name)

The name "Kansai Fisheries Products Marketing & Sales Department" will be changed to "Osaka Fisheries Products Marketing & Sales department"

2) Food Products Business Operation-Related

Branch Offices will be reorganized to reflect the socio-economic changes. (Establishment of new organization, transfer of functions, change in name)
Hiroshima Branch and Shikoku Sales Department of Osaka Branch will be integrated into Chushikoku Branch

3) Business Support-Related
(Establishment of new position, transfer of functions, abolition of positions)

In order to further promote the collaboration between the marine products business and the food products business, the positions of Fisheries Products Sales Promotion Officer and Food Sales Promotion Officer will be abolished, and the functions thereof will be consolidated into the position of Marketing Promotion Officer to be newly established under the direct supervision of Chief Operating Officer.

II. Changes in Responsibilities of Board Members (As of March 1)

<New Position>	<Old Position in Parentheses>	<Sustained Position>	<Name>
▽In charge of Secretarial Office and Corporate History Office	(Board Member, Managing Executive Officer In charge of Human Resources Dept., Finance and Accounting Dept., Public Relations & Investor Relations Dept., Corporate Strategic Planning Office Jointly in charge of Customer Services Center)	Board Member, Managing Executive Officer In charge of Human Resources Dept., Finance and Accounting Dept., Corporate Strategic Planning Office Jointly in charge of Customer Services Center	Kunihiko Koike
▽—	(Board Member, Executive Officer In charge of Quality Assurance Office, Central Research Laboratory, Environment Office, Food Safety Research Center, Human Life Science R&D Center, Bio—Production Research Center Jointly in charge of Quality Control Center Thailand , Aquaculture Business Promotion Office)	Board Member, Executive Officer In charge of Quality Assurance Office, Central Research Laboratory, Environment Office, Food Safety Research Center, Human Life Science R&D Center, and Bio—production Research Center; jointly in charge of Aquaculture Business Promotion Office	Naoto Ihara
▽Commissioned General Manager, Fisheries Business Department 3	(Executive Officer, Fisheries Business Operating Officer)	Executive Officer, Fisheries Business Operating Officer	Kenjiro Fujimoto
▽Commissioned Sales Promotion Officer	(Executive Officer, Commissioned Deputy Chief Operating Officer, Foods Sales Promotion Officer)	Executive Officer, Deputy Chief Operating Officer	Yasumasa Yamasaki
▽General Manager, Public Relations & Investor Relations Office Commissioned Public Relations Officer In charge of General Affairs Department	(Executive Officer Commissioned General Manager of General Affairs Department, Group Risk Management Officer In charge of Risk Management, Secretarial Office, Corporate History Office)	Executive Officer In charge of Risk Management	Koki Sato
▽Commissioned Deputy Fisheries Business Operating Officer (Procurement)	(Executive Officer Commissioned General Manager of Feed & Aquaculture Business Operations Department)	Executive Officer Commissioned General Manager of Feed & Aquaculture Business Operations Department	Seiji Takahashi

III. Change in Assignment of General Manager (As of March 1)

<New Position>	<Old Position in Parentheses>	<Sustained Position>	<Name>
▽Deputy Fisheries Business Operating Officer (Sales)	(General Manager of Fisheries Business Department 1)	General Manager of Fisheries Business Department 1	Yuji Kobayashi
▽General Manager of Fisheries Products Marketing & Sales Department	(General Manager of Sales Department 1, Osaka Branch)	—	Tomomi Kimura
▽General Manager of Fisheries Products Value-enhancing Department	(Fisheries Products Sales Promotion Officer)	—	Atsushi Ueda
▽General Manager of Osaka Fisheries Products Marketing & Sales Department	(General Manager of Kansai Fisheries Products Marketing & Sales Department)	—	Toshimichi Takada
▽General Manager of Sales Department 1, Osaka Branch	(Manager of Food Service Products Section, Sales Department 1, Osaka Branch)	—	Atsushi Koga
▽General Manager of Kanto Shin-etsu Branch	(General Manager of Shikoku Sales Department, Osaka Branch)	—	Yoshihito Yuuchi
▽General Manager of Chushikoku Branch	(General Manager of Hiroshima Branch)	—	Yoshimi Miyazaki
▽General Manager of Convenience Store Sales Department, National Account Sales Division	(Manager of Consumer Products Section, Fukuoka Branch)	—	Hideyo Okumura
▽General Manager of Hachioji General Plant	(On loan to Hachikan Co., Ltd.)	—	Masahiro Yoshioka
▽General Manager of Himeji General Plant	(Manager of Anjo Plant, Food Products Production Promotion Office)	—	Takashi Sakamoto
▽General Manager of Food Products Production Promotion Office	(General Manager of Himeji General Plant)	—	Munehiro Ise
▽General Manager of Audit Office	(On loan to Nippon Suisan (U.S.A.) Inc.)	—	Makoto Shigemitsu
▽General Manager of General Affairs Department and Group Risk Management Officer	(General Affairs Department)	—	Yasunori Takeuchi
▽Environment Officer	(General Manager of Public Relations & Investor Relations Office Public Relations Officer)	—	Eiichi Hiyoshi

For more information, contact:
Public Relations & Investor Relations Office
NIPPON SUISAN KAISHA, LTD.
Tel: 03-3244-7101