MAZDA:Organizational and Personnel Changes

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2008/07/01

Organizational and Personnel Changes

Mazda Motor Corporation has announced the following organizational and personnel changes, effective July 1, 2008.

1. Organizational changes
Changes in the area of customer service

Goals

-	To strengthen the Mazda brand’s quality and service worldwide and provide the best possible service to every customer. Achieve this by structuring departments according to function to improve business efficiency and by streamlining service promotional activities according to market.
-	To further promote recycling efforts by integrating recycling promotion activities with the internal control and the environmental management system (EMS) promotion functions of the Customer Service HR Planning & Administration Dept. to achieve synergies and improve efficiencies.
-	To improve services and better respond to customer needs by consolidating domestic parts sales and service promotional activities in line with the establishment of Mazda Parts Co., Ltd. on July 1, 2008.

Details of the organizational changes

-	All functions of the Recycle Promotion Office have been transferred to the Customer Service HR Planning and Administration Dept.
-	Some functions of the Global Service Marketing & Purchasing Dept. have been transferred to the Customer Service Business Development Dept.
-	The Customer Service Education and Training Dept. has been newly established; some functions of the Customer Service HR Planning & Administration Dept. and the Vehicle Service & Program Dept. have been transferred to it.
-	The Domestic Parts & Service Marketing Dept. has been newly established; some functions of the Customer Service HR Planning and Administration Dept., Customer Service Business Development Dept. and the Global Service Marketing & Purchasing Dept. and all functions of the Domestic Parts Sales Dept. have been transferred to it.
-	The Overseas Fields Service Dept. has been renamed the Overseas Parts & Service Marketing Dept.; some functions of the Customer Service Business Development Dept. have been transferred to it.
-	In line with the above changes, the Recycle Promotion Office, Global Service Marketing & Purchasing Dept. and Domestic Parts Sales Dept. have been eliminated.

2. Personnel Changes
(1) Executive officers

New Post	Current Post	Name
Executive Officer General Manager, Customer Service Div. and President, Mazda Parts Co., Ltd.	Executive Officer and General Manager, Customer Service Div.	Kozo Kawakami

(2) General managers and above

New Post	Current Post	Name
Staff Manager Global Auditing Dept.	General Manager Customer Service Business Development Dept.	Mitsunori Kariya
Program Manager Program Management Office No.2	Program Manager Program Management Office No.1 and Program Manager Program Management Office No.2	Hideaki Tanaka
Deputy General Manager Purchasing Div.	-	Peter Sahlstrom
General Manager Powertrain Production Engineering Dept.	Manager Foundry & Forging Production Engineering Gr. No.2 Powertrain Production Engineering Dept.	Iwao Aota
General Manager Powertrain Production Dept. No.2 Hiroshima Plant	General Manager Powertrain Production Engineering Dept.	Hiroshi Miyanaka
General Manager Powertrain Production Dept. No.4 Hofu Plant	General Manager Powertrain Production Dept. No.2 Hiroshima Plant	Keiichi Ishimaru
General Manager Vehicle Production Dept. No.4 Hofu Plant	General Manager Powertrain Production Dept. No.4 Hofu Plant	Hidenori Kawakami
Deputy General Manager Domestic Business Div. and General Manager Used Car Dept.	Deputy General Manager Domestic Business Div.	Hiroaki Shimada
Deputy General Manager Customer Service Div.	Deputy General Manager Customer Service Div. and General Manager Recycle Promotion Office	Teruhiko Miyazaki
General Manager Customer Service Business Development Dept.	General Manager Global Service Marketing & Purchasing Dept.	Hideaki Itami
General Manager Global Supply Chain Management Dept.	Manager Domestic Parts Business Promotion Gr. Domestic Parts Sales Dept.	Hiroaki Ozaki
General Manager Customer Service Education & Training Dept.	Manager Customer Service Business Planning Gr. Customer Service Business Development Dept.	Yoji Maekawa
General Manager Domestic Parts & Service Marketing Dept.	General Manager Global Supply Chain Management Dept.	Kazuhiro Kobayashi
General Manager Overseas Parts & Service Marketing Dept.	General Manager Overseas Fields Service Dept.	Hiroshi Okugawa
Dispatched to Kanto Mazda Co., Ltd.	General Manager Used Car Dept.	Keizo Mori
Dispatched to Mazda Parts Co., Ltd.	General Manager Domestic Parts Sales Dept.	Norihiro Matsuo
Dispatched to AutoAlliance (Thailand) Co., Ltd.	General Manager Vehicle Production Dept. No.4 Hofu Plant	Yasunobu Hiragochi
-	Deputy General Manager Purchasing Div. (Return to Ford as of June 30, 2008)	Tom E. Wessner

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