Toyo revises corporate roles

Toyo Tire & Rubber Co., Ltd. has made the following changes to its array of corporate officers and other executives. All roles are effective 1 November.

Tetsua Kuze is now corporate officer and general manager of Toyo’s DT Planning Division, DT Business Group Headquarters, DT Strategy and Planning Dept. and DT Business Group. Kuze had previously been senior corporate officer and general manager of the administrative division as well as general manager of the Corporate Planning Division overseeing corporate purchasing division headquarters. He remains deputy general manager, Seismic Isolation Rubber Division.

At the same time, Takashi Shimizu and Masaji Ishino remain senior corporate officers, but no longer continue as deputy general manager of the administrative division and general manager of DT Strategy and Planning Dept./DT Business Group Headquarters respectively.

Ikuo Ohno becomes corporate office and general manager of the administrative and corporate planning divisions, while continuing as general manager of the accounting and finance department and president of FTG Co., Ltd.

Meanwhile, Toyo has created the DT Planning Division under its DT Business Group Headquarters. And the DT Strategy and Planning Dept. and DT Administration Dept. have been transferred to it.