Japan Tobacco : JT Announces New Executive Appointments
July 30, 2021 at 02:11 am EDT
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tokyo, July 30, 2021
JT Announces New Executive Appointments
Japan Tobacco Inc. (JT) (TSE:2914) announces that the Board of Directors has made a resolution concerning the Company's new executive appointment.
Change in Executive Officers (Effective from September 1, 2021)
1. Newly appointed Executive Officer
Responsibility
Name
Senior Vice President, Performance & Integration, Tobacco Business
Daniel Torras
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Japan Tobacco Inc. is a leading international tobacco company with operations in more than 130 countries. With approximately 58,000 employees, it manufactures and sells some of the world's best-known brands including Winston, Camel, MEVIUS and LD. The JT Group is committed to investing in Reduced-Risk Products (RRP) and currently markets its heated tobacco products under the Ploom brand and various e-cigarette products under its Logic brand. The Group is also present in the pharmaceutical and processed food businesses. For more information, visit https://www.jt.com/.
Contacts: Dinesh Babu Thotakura, General Manager
Media and Investor Relations Division
Japan Tobacco Inc.
Tokyo: +81-3-6636-2914
E-mail: jt.media.relations@jt.com
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Executive Officers
(As of September 1, 2021)
President
Chief Executive Officer*
Masamichi Terabatake
Executive Vice
Chief Financial Officer and Communications
Naohiro Minami
President
Executive Vice
Legal, Corporate Strategy, Digitalization, Human
Kiyohide Hirowatari
President
Resources, Operation Review & Business
Assurance, Pharmaceutical Business and Food
Business
Senior Vice President
Senior Vice President
Senior Vice President
Senior Vice President
Senior Vice President
Senior Vice President
Senior Vice President
Senior Vice President
Senior Vice President
Senior Vice President
Senior Vice President
Senior Vice President
Chief Sustainability Officer, Compliance and General
Head of Central Pharmaceutical Research Institute,
Shigenori Ohkawa
Pharmaceutical Business
Food Business
Hiromasa Furukawa
Corporate Strategy
Kei Nakano
Digitalization
Takehisa Shibayama
General Affairs
Takanori Kikuchi
Human Resources
Koichi Mori
Communications
Hiroyuki Fukuda
Legal
Osamu Hirose
Sustainability Management
Hisato Imokawa
*Mr. Terabatake, Chief Executive Officer, will also serve as President of Tobacco Business. **New appointment
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Japan Tobacco Inc. specializes in manufacturing and marketing of tobacco products. The group's products include primarily cigarettes, cigars, chewing and snuff tobaccos. Net sales break down by activity as follows:
- sale of tobacco products overseas (66%): 460 billion products sold in 2021, under the brands Winston, Camel, Silk Cut, Sobranie, Glamour, etc.;
- sale of tobacco products in Japan (24.1%): 67 billion products sold under the brands Cabin Prestige, Seven Stars, Pianissimo, Mild Seven, etc.;
- distribution of food products (6.3%);
- development of pharmaceutical products (3.5%): primarily for dyslipidemia, osteoporosis and Hepatitis C treatment;
- other (0.1%).
68.5% of net sales are abroad.