Warabeya Nichiyo : Notice Regarding Change in Representative

Translation

	January 27, 2022
Company Name:	Warabeya Nichiyo Holdings Co., Ltd.
Representative:	Hiroyuki Otomo, Representative Director, President
(Securities code: 2918, Tokyo Stock Exchange First Section)
Contact:	Naoshi Asano, Director, Managing Executive Officer
	(Tel: [phone])

Notice Regarding Change in Representative

Warabeya Nichiyo Holdings Co., Ltd. (hereinafter the "Company") has decided to make changes to its representatives today as follows.

1. Change in representative

1. Reason for change in representative
   In order to further strengthen and enhance the Company's management system.
2. Name and title of representative

Former representative

Name:	Hiroyuki Otomo
New title:	Representative Director, Chairman
New representative
Name:	Hideo Tsuji
New title:	Representative Director, President

(3) Career summary

Name	Date of birth		Career summary	Number of
	shares owned
				(Thousands)
		Jan. 1988	Joined Nichiyo Co., Ltd.
		May 1989	Joined the Company
		May 1991	Assumed Director
		May 1998	Assumed Managing Director
		Oct. 2005	Assumed Representative Director of Nichiyo Co.,
Hiroyuki	January 30,		Ltd.
May 2009	Assumed Managing Director of the Company	520
Otomo	1962
	Head of General Business Headquarters
		Aug. 2011	Assumed Executive Director
			Head of General Business Headquarters
		Apr. 2014	Assumed Representative Director, Vice President
			Head of Production Headquarters
		May 2015	Assumed Representative Director, President (current
			position)

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Name	Date of birth		Career summary	Number of
	shares owned
				(Thousands)
		Feb. 1997	Joined Nichiyo Carry Co., Ltd. (currently Bestrans
			Co., Ltd.)
		May 2003	Assumed Director
			Head of Sales Headquarters and General Manager of
			Business Promotion Dept.
		May 2006	Assumed Managing Director
		May 2011	Assumed Representative Director, President of
			Warabeya Hokkaido Co., Ltd.
		Mar. 2013	Assumed Representative Director, President of
			Warabeya Tokai Co., Ltd.
		May 2016	Assumed Representative Director, President of
			Warabeya Kansai Co., Ltd. (currently Warabeya
			Nichiyo International Co., Ltd.)
		Sept. 2016	Director, Executive Officer and Head of Western
			Japan Business Headquarters
		June 2017	Director, Executive Officer, General Manager of
			International Business Dept. and supervising
			Quality Assurance Dept.
		May 2018	Assumed Director and Managing Executive Officer
			of the Company
Hideo Tsuji	January 21,		In charge of international business and supervising	3
1964		Corporate Planning Dept. and Quality Assurance
		Dept.
		Mar. 2019	Assumed Director and Senior Managing Executive
			Officer
			In charge of international business and supervising
			Corporate Planning Dept. and Quality Assurance
			Dept.
		Mar. 2020	Assumed Director and Executive Vice President
			In charge of international business and supervising
			Corporate Planning Dept. and Quality Assurance
			Dept.
		May 2021	Assumed Representative Director, Vice President
			In charge of international business and supervising
			Corporate Planning Dept. and Quality Assurance
			Dept.
		Sept. 2021	Representative Director, Vice President
			In charge of international business and supervising
			Corporate Planning Dept. and Quality Assurance
			Dept. (current position)
			(Significant concurrent positions outside the Company)
			Representative Director, President of Warabeya
			Nichiyo International Co., Ltd.

1. Scheduled date of change Tuesday, March 1, 2022

Note: This English translation is provided solely for information purposes. Should there be any discrepancies between this translation and the Japanese original, the latter shall prevail.

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