Shionogi & Co., Ltd. announced that Shionogi will implement the following corporate reorganization and personnel reassignments as of October 1, 2014. Shionogi will divide the current Pharmaceutical Promotion Department in the Human Health Care Division into four individual regional departments, allowing a tighter focus on the specific sales and marketing needs of each region: 1) "the Pharmaceutical Promotion Department - Region 1" for the Hokkaido, Tohoku, North Kanto and Koshinetsu regions, 2) "the Pharmaceutical Promotion Department - Region 2" including the South Kanto region and general practitioners in Tokyo, 3) "the Pharmaceutical Promotion Department - Region 3" for the Kinki, Tokai and Hokuriku regions, and 4) "the Pharmaceutical Promotion Department - Region 4" for the Chugoku, Shikoku and Kyushu regions. For the Tokyo metropolitan region, where many hospitals are located, "the Pharmaceutical Promotion Department - Tokyo Hospitals" will be established to implement focused sales and marketing efforts for Tokyo Hospitals in collaboration with the Product Marketing Department and the Global Development Division. The current Human Health Care Division, Planning Unit will be renamed the Sales Planning Department to manage sales and marketing strategy for all of the above four regional Pharmaceutical Promotion Departments and the Pharmaceutical Promotion Department - Tokyo Hospitals.

The company also announced the following reassignments effective from October 1, 2014: Harumi Shimazui has been appointed as Vice President, Sales Planning
Department, Shinichi Noguchi as Vice President, Pharmaceutical Promotion Department - Region 1, Masao Kashiyama as Vice President, Pharmaceutical Promotion
Department - Region 2, Tooru Nakamura as Vice President, Pharmaceutical Promotion Department - Region 3, Yasuyuki Kurokawa as Vice President, Pharmaceutical Promotion Department - Region 4, Junichiro Akiyoshi as Vice President, Pharmaceutical Promotion Department - Tokyo Hospitals, Sachiyo Hada as Vice President, Product Marketing Department, Hideki Imura as Senior Director, Unit for Appropriate Use of Anti-infectives, Kazuhisa Kusaka as Vice President, Sales Human Resources Development Department in Human Health Care Division; Yoshimitsu Katakuse as Vice President, Formulation Development Center in CMC Development Laboratories; Akira Fujii as Senior Director, Nagoya Branch Office, Pharmaceutical Promotion Department - Region 3, Hiroyuki Kokubo as Senior Director, Fukuoka Branch Office,
Pharmaceutical Promotion Department - Region 4 in Back office.