Business Report - Shiseido group website

External Directors
Position Name
Important Position of Other Organizations Concurrently
Assumed
External Director of Seiko Holdings Corporation
Outside Corporate Auditor of Sumitomo Corporation
Outside Director of Japan Post Holdings Co., Ltd.
External Corporate Auditor
(Part time)
Akio Harada
External Director of Enterprise Turnaround Initiative
Corporation of Japan
President of Tokyo Woman's Christian University
President of International Civil and Commercial Law
Centre Foundation
External Corporate Auditor
(Part time)
Reiko Kuroda
Professor, Department of Life Sciences, Graduate School
of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo
External Corporate Auditor
(Part time) Nobuo Otsuka Chairman of Keiseikai Hospital Group
(3) Important Position of Other Organizations Concurrently Assumed by the
External Directors and the Relationships between These Organizations and the
Company
Name
Shoichiro Iwata
Company in Which
Concurrent Position
Is Held
ASKUL Corporation
[Translation: AGM 2012]
Important Position of Other Organizations
Concurrently Assumed and the Relationships
Between These Organizations and the Company
The Company purchases stationeries, etc. from ASKUL and such
purchases of stationeries, etc. from ASKUL represented less than
0.1% of the total amount of the cost of sales and the selling,
general and administrative expenses of the Company for the fiscal
year ended March 31, 2012. Moreover, purchases by the Shiseido
Group of stationeries, etc. from ASKUL represented less than 0.1%
of the total amount of the consolidated cost of sales and the
consolidated selling, general and administrative expenses of the
Company for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2012.
A subsidiary of the Company sells toiletries, etc. for office use to
ASKUL and such sales represented less than 0.1% of the
consolidated net sales of the Company for the fiscal year ended
March 31, 2012.
Purchases of toiletries, etc. for office use by ASKUL from a
subsidiary of the Company accounted for approximately 0.2% of
ASKUL’s cost of sales for the fiscal year ended May 31, 2011.
ASKUL sells through catalogue sales toiletries, etc. for office use,
which are produced by companies other than the Shiseido Group
and such sales represented approximately 0.7% of the net sales of
ASKUL for the fiscal year ended May 31, 2011.
ASKUL sells stationeries, etc. to the Company and such sales
represented less than 0.1% of the consolidated net sales of
ASKUL for the fiscal year ended May 31, 2011, and the sales of
stationeries, etc. to the Shiseido Group represented approximately
0.1% of the consolidated net sales of ASKUL Group for the same
fiscal year.
Mr. Tadakatsu Saito who is an outside director of ASKUL
assumed the office of Director of the Company during June 1997
to June 2004, but the Company has no special relationships of
interest with Mr. Saito at present.
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