NACHI-FUJIKOSHI CORP.

NACHI-Fujikoshi will restructure its sales offices in the Chugoku-Shikoku region and establish a new sales company as part of structural reorganization and personnel transfers aimed at expanding sales.

• Demand is rising in the Chugoku-Shikoku region, particularly in the Hiroshima district, with growth in the automotive industry as well as aircraft and shipbuilding industries.
  The Hiroshima Branch (in the city of Hiroshima) has been newly set up, merging the Chugoku-Shikoku Branch (in the city of Okayama) with the Hiroshima Office.
• Together with the new Hiroshima Branch, NACHI Sanyo Co., Ltd. is being established to work in conjunction with the group's distribution network to expand demand across the Chugoku-Shikoku region for industrial equipment and lower-demand product categories. NACHI Sanyo Co., Ltd. will work with the Hiroshima Branch to plan area-wide marketing.

Hiroshima Branch address:
8F Nihon Seimei Hiroshima Hikarimachi Bldg., 1-10-19 Hikarimachi, Higashi-ku, Hiroshima

NACHI Sanyo Co., Ltd.
Capital: 10 million yen (100% wholly owned subsidiary of NACHI-Fujikoshi)
No. of employees: 20, initially
President: Akira Taguchi (former Deputy General Manager of the Western Japan Main Branch)
Business areas: The sale of cutting tools, functional parts (bearings, hydraulics), machine tools, robots, industrial furnaces, etc.