Ricoh Company, Ltd. announced personnel change of Representative Director, President and Chief Executive Officer, as approved at a meeting of the Board of Directors held on January 30, 2023. The company announced that Yoshinori Yamashita's designation has been changed from Representative Director, President and Chief Executive Officer to the new position of Representative Director and Chairperson. Akira Oyama's designation has been changed from Director, Executive Corporate Officer, President of RICOH Digital Services Business Unit to the new position of Representative Director,
President and Chief Executive Officer. Effective date: April 1, 2023. Name: Akira Oyama. Date of Birth: January 1961. Education: Graduated from Waseda University, School of Political Science and Economics. Career: July 1986 - Joined the Company; April 2011 - President and COO of Ricoh Europe Plc; August 2012 - Group Executive Officer, General Manager of Europe Marketing Group, CEO of Ricoh Europe Plc, Chairperson of Ricoh Europe B.V.; April 2014 - Corporate Senior Vice President, General Manager of Corporate Division; April 2015 - President of Ricoh Americas Holdings Inc.; June 2015 - Director; September 2015 - General Manager of New Business Development Division; June 2016 - Corporate Executive Vice President; April 2017 - CFO (Chief Financial Officer), General Manager of CEO Office; April 2018 - General Manager of Sales and Marketing Group; April 2019 - CMO (Chief Marketing Officer); April 2020 - General Manager of Workplace Solutions Business Group, April 2021 - Executive Corporate Officer (Current), President of RICOH Digital Services Business Unit (Current); June 2021 - Director (Current); and April 2022 - Director and Chairperson of Ricoh Japan Corporation (Current).
Ricoh Company, Ltd. is one of the world's leading office equipment manufacturers. Net sales break down by family of products and services as follows:
- office automation equipment (48.5%): photocopiers, fax machines and printing systems;
- IT equipment and network systems (31.6%): PCs, servers, software, etc. The group also offers installation and start-up, training, technical support, and maintenance services;
- commercial and industrial printing solutions and systems (9.5%): inkjet print heads, imaging systems, commercial and industrial printers;
- thermal paper and thermal transfer ribbons (3.4%): for label printing;
- other (7%): primarily optical equipment, semiconductor, electronic components, measurement systems, photographic equipment, integrated circuits, and electronic processing equipment.
Net sales break down geographically as follows: Japan (44.8%), Europe/Middle East/Africa (23.4%), Americas (23%) and other (8.8%).
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