Asahi Glass | Corporate Profile

Asahi Glass corporate profile and business

Name:	Asahi Glass Co., Ltd.
Head Office:	1-12-1, Yurakucho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8405 JAPAN
Founded:	September 8, 1907
Incorporated:	June 1, 1950
Capital:	90,873 million yen.
Outstanding stock:	1,186,705,905 shares (as of end of June 2009)
Employees:	6,692 (as of June 30, 2009)

(Chairman of the Board)	*Masahiro Kadomatsu ()**
(President & CEO)	*Kazuhiko Ishimura ()**
(Senior Executive Vice President)	*Takashi Matsuzawa ()**
(Executive Vice President & CTO)	Katsuhisa Kato Kunihiro Matsuo () Hajime Sawabe () Toru Nagashima (*) () Representative Director, (**) Independent Director

Takashi Terashima (***)
Izumi Tamai (***)
Kozo Tsukagoshi
Koji Ogaki

(***) On a full-time basis

(President & CEO)

(CEO; GM of Group Strategy Office)

Kazuhiko Ishimura

(Senior Executive Vice Presidents)

(Special Assignment)	Takashi Wada
(Special Assignment)	Takashi Matsuzawa
(President of Electronics Company)	Yuji Nishimi
(President of Glass Company)	Akio Endo

(Executive Vice President)

(CTO; Deputy GM of Group Strategy Office)

Katsuhisa Kato

(Senior Executive Officers)

(Assistant to CEO)	Michiyoshi Kaino
(Vice President, Automotive, Glass Company)	Kei Yonamoto
(GM of Research Center)	Akira Toyama
(GM of Finance & Control Office)	Shukichi Umemoto
(GM of Human Resources & Administration Office)	Yasutoshi Hirata
(GM of Electronic Glass General Div., Electronics Company)	Nozomu Taguchi
(Regional President of Japan/Asia Pacific, Glass Company)	Marehisa Ishiko
(GM of Display General Div., Electronics Company)	Yoshiaki Tamura
(Regional President of Europe, Glass Company; President & CEO of AGC Glass Europe)	Jean-François Heris
(CFO; GM of Office of President; Deputy GM of Group Strategy Office)	Takashi Fujino

(Executive Officers)

(Technical Director of Japan/Asia Pacific, Glass Company)	Tetsuji Kakimoto
(GM of Electronics General Div., Electronics Company)	Masafumi Ohinata
(Vice President, Planning and Coordination, Glass Company)	Masayuki Kamiya
(Assistant to CEO)	Eiichi Kudo
(Assistant to President of Glass Company)	Toru Kawatsura
(Assistant to CEO)	Satoshi Kamata
(Vice President, Technology, Glass Company)	Tadayuki Oi
(GM of Production Technology Center)	Yasumasa Nakao
(Deputy GM of Group Strategy Office)	Shinichi Kawakami
(President of Chemicals Company)	Takuya Shimamura
(Deputy GM of Group Strategy Office)	Tetsuo Tatsuno
(GM of Legal)	Eisuke Yanagisawa
(GM of Business Management General Div., Chemicals Company)	Hiroshi Akagi
(GM of CSR Office)	Tokio Matsuo
(President of AGC Ceramics Co., Ltd.)	Akinobu Shimao
(President of Asahi Glass Fine Techno Korea Co., Ltd.)	Tomoya Takigawa
(GM of Purchase & Logistics Center)	Takashi Shimbo
(Group Leader of Corporate Planning Group, Office of President)	Shinji Miyaji

(Abbreviation)"GM": General Manager

Fiscal 2008 Consolidated Financial Results
Net Sales	1,444.3 billion yen	Net income	39.2 yen
Operating income	154.0 billion yen	Total assets	1,832.8 billion yen
Operating income margin	10.7%	Total net assets	780.9 billion yen

*Year ended December 2008

	The Americas	Europe	Asia	Japan
Number of employees	Approx. 4,700	Approx. 14,300	Approx. 15,800	Approx. 13,000
Net Sales	128.1 billion yen	355.3 billion yen	419.1 billion yen	810.8 billion yen
Operating income	-4.4 billion yen	25.7 billion yen	56.9 billion yen	77.7 billion yen
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*Year ended December 2008
*Sales and operating income by geographic area are before eliminations; therefore, the total amounts of sales and operating income for geographic areas do not agree with total sales and operating income of the AGC Group.