Pola Orbis : Announcement Regarding Organizational and Personnel Changes at POLA ORBIS HOLDINGS INC. and its Subsidiaries

	November 20, 2023
Company Name:	POLA ORBIS HOLDINGS INC.
Representative:	Yoshikazu Yokote,
	Representative Director and President
TSE Code:	4927 (Prime Market)
Contact:	Naotaka Hashi, Corporate Officer,
	General Manager, Corporate
	Communications Div.
	TEL.:[phone]

Announcement Regarding Organizational and Personnel Changes at

POLA ORBIS HOLDINGS INC. and its Subsidiaries

The POLA ORBIS Group (the "Group") hereby announces that it will implement the following organizational and personnel changes at POLA ORBIS HOLDINGS INC. (the "Company") and its subsidiaries as of January 1, 2024.

1. Personnel Changes at POLA ORBIS HOLDINGS INC. and its subsidiaries (January 1, 2024)

POLA ORBIS HOLDINGS INC.

Changes in supervisory role/Changes in name of supervisory role

New supervisory role	Name	Current supervisory role
Corporate Officer in charge of Global	Takahiro Tabata	Corporate Officer in charge of Group
Management	International Business

Takahiro Tabata will also hold the post of Director and CEO (Part-time) at POLA ORBIS Travel Retail Limited.

POLA INC.

Appointed

New position	Name	Current position
Corporate Officer in charge of Brand
Creation	Akiko Tamura	General Manager of Brand Creation
General Manager of Brand Creation	Division
Division
Corporate Officer in charge of B.A
Global Branding	Sawako Takahashi	General Manager of Brand Design
General Manager of B.A Brand Strategy	Division
Division

Changes in supervisory role/Changes in name of supervisory role

	New supervisory role	Name	Current supervisory role
	Director and Corporate Officer in charge	Akira Gogo	Director and Corporate Officer in
	of Marketing Strategy	charge of Brand Marketing
	Director (Part-time)
	Representative Director and President of		Director and Corporate Officer in
	POLA ORBIS (Shanghai) Enterprise		charge of POLA and Corporate
	Management CO., LTD.	Seiichi Takaya	Group Global Business Restructuring
	Representative Director and President of		Representative Director and President
	Shanghai POLA Trading Co., Ltd. (Part-		of Shanghai POLA Trading Co., Ltd.
	time)
	Corporate Officer in charge of Prestige		Corporate Officer in charge of Sales
	Stores Business, BtoB Business and E-	Yasuro Katamine
	of Total Beauty Business
	commerce Business
			Corporate Officer in charge of Total
	Corporate Officer in charge of Total	Yuko Shoji	Beauty Business Planning
	Beauty Business Planning	General Manager of Total Beauty
			Sales Planning Division
			Corporate Officer in charge of
	Corporate Officer in charge of Customer		Prestige Stores Business, BtoB
	Shimpei Yasuno	Business and E-commerce Business
	Contact Point Development
		General Manager of E-commerce
			Division
ORBIS Inc.
Appointed
	New position	Name	Current position
	Corporate Officer in charge of Corporate	Naoshi Higuchi	General Manager of Accounting and
	Planning and Legal	Finance Division
Changes in supervisory role/Changes in name of supervisory role
	New supervisory role	Name	Current supervisory role
	Director and Corporate Officer in charge		Director and Corporate Officer in
		charge of Business Strategy, Brand
	of Brand Design
	Emi Nishino	Design, and Product Development
	General Manager of Sustainability
		General Manager of Brand Design
	Promotion Division
		Division
	Director (Part-time) in charge of HR	Hiroyuki Nakamata	Director (Part-time) in charge of HR
	Strategy and DX Promotion	Strategy
	Corporate Officer in charge of Human		Corporate Officer in charge of
	Resources, Fulfillment and BtoB		Human Resources, Fulfillment and
	Business	Masaki Motoki	BtoB Business
	General Manager of BtoB Business		General Manager of BtoB Business
	Division		Division
	Corporate Officer in charge of CRM and		Corporate Officer in charge of CRM
	Media Strategy	Ryosuke Imai	and Media Strategy
	General Manager of Stores Management	General Manager of CRM and Media
	Division		Strategy Division

POLA CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES, INC.

Appointed

	New position	Name	Current position
			Corporate Officer in Charge of Sales
	Director and Corporate Officer in charge	Hiroki Tsuruoka	and Procurement
	of R&D	General Manager of Sales
			Department
	Corporate Officer in charge of Human
	Resources	Naoko Ota	General Manager of Human
	General Manager of Human Resources	Resources Department
	Department
	Corporate Officer in Charge of Sales and
	Procurement	Fumie Habu	General Manager of Procurement
	General Manager of Procurement	Department
	Department
			Chief of Intellectual Property &
	Corporate Auditor	Akira Toyoda	Regulatory Affairs Center at POLA
			ORBIS HOLDINGS INC.
Retiring
	Current position	Name	New position
			Corporate Officer in charge of Group
			Research and Intellectual Property &
	Director and Corporate Officer in charge		Regulatory Affairs at POLA ORBIS
	of R&D	Noriko Suenobu	HOLDINGS INC. (continuing)
	Chief of Frontier Research Center		Representative Director and President
			at POLA MEDICAL INC.
			(continuing)
	Corporate Auditor	Kenichi Akahane	-

Noriko Suenobu will be released from her concurrent duties.

Corporate Auditor will retire as of the General Meeting of Shareholders to be held in February 2024.

Changes in supervisory role/Changes in name of supervisory role

New supervisory role	Name	Current supervisory role
Corporate Officer in charge of Corporate		Corporate Officer in charge of
	Corporate Planning and Yokohama
Planning
Yasuhiro Fukuda	R&D Center Remodeling Project
General Manager of Corporate Planning
	General Manager of Corporate
Department
	Planning Department
Corporate Officer in charge of Technical		Corporate Officer in charge of
Development Center and Product	Koji Yokoyama	Product Development
Development	General Manager of Product
Chief of Technical Development Center		Development Department
Corporate Officer in charge of Quality		Corporate Officer in charge of
Assurance	Tomomasa Shimanuki	Quality Assurance
General Manager of Quality Assurance	General Manager of Quality
Department		Assurance Department

POLA ORBIS (Shanghai) Enterprise Management CO., LTD.

Appointed

New position	Name	Current position
		Director and Corporate Officer in
		charge of POLA and Corporate
Representative Director and President	Seiichi Takaya	Group Global Business Restructuring
at POLA INC.
		Representative Director and President
		of Shanghai POLA Trading Co., Ltd.

Seiichi Takaya will also hold the post of Director (Part-time) at POLA INC. and Representative Director and President at Shanghai POLA Trading Co., Ltd. (Part-time)

POLA ORBIS (Shanghai) Enterprise Management CO., LTD. is scheduled to be established in January 2024. Reference release: Establishment of Overseas Subsidiary and Transfer of Sub-subsidiaries through Distribution

of Dividends in Kind of Subsidiaries (November 20, 2023)

2. Organizational changes and personnel changes at the Company (January 1, 2024)

1. Organizational changes

Reorganization of the Group's overseas business structure

In preparation to leap forward with our global expansion, we must establish a locally-led structure across operating companies and brands. In order to do so, we will reorganize the Company's global business divisions into the Global Business Strategy Division, responsible for formulating the global strategy of the Group, and the Global Business Support Division, in charge of managing and supporting the Group's overseas business operations.

2) Personnel changes Appointed

New position	Name	Current position
General Manager of Global Business	Takako Okabe	General Manager of International
Strategy Division	Business Management Division
General Manager of Global Business	Jotaro Wachi	General Manager of POLA Global
Support Division	Business Division
Chief of Intellectual Property &	Megumi Takechi	Intellectual Property & Regulatory
Regulatory Affairs Center	Affairs Center
Chief of Multiple Intelligence Research	Hidetaka Akatsuka	Multiple Intelligence Research Center
Center

APPENDIX

POLA ORBIS HOLDINGS INC. Organization Chart

General			Board of		Representative		Representative
Meeting of				Director and		Director and
		Directors
Shareholders				Chairman		President

Board of

Corporate

Auditors

									Internal Audit Div.
									Legal Div.
		Finance, Legal and Administration				Administration Div.
									Group Finance & Accounting Div.
									Management Planning Div.
									Business Development Div.
		Management Planning, IT, HR
		and Business Development
		Group Digital Solution Center
									HR Div.
									Global Business Strategy Div.
			Global Management
									Global Business Support Div.
			PR, IR, CSR and Sustainability			Corporate Communications Div.
									Multiple Intelligence
			Group Research and			Research Center
			Intellectual Property &
			Regulatory Affairs Center
					Intellectual Property&
									Regulatory Affairs Center
			Group QCD Management			QCD Management Div.