Sumitomo established regional HQs

Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd. (SRI) recently established different headquarters for Asia Pacific, Europe and Africa and America.

The company appointed its executive officers as new general managers of the new organizations. Yasutaka Ii will serve as the General Manager of Americas Regional Headquarters. Yutaka Kuroda will be the General Manager of Europe and Africa Regional Headquarters. And Satoru Yamamoto is appointed as the General Manager of Asia Pacific Regional Headquarters. The personnel changes which will go into effect as of March 30, 2016.

“With the aim of reinforcing our group’s management while accelerating our decision-making process based on a more timely understanding of our overall business situation in each key region, we have decided to establish the above organizations, which will serve to centralize the supervision and management of our overseas offices and subsidiaries in each of their respective regions.” says SRI in a press release.