MAZDA NEWSROOM｜Organizational and Personnel Changes

NEWS RELEASES

May 30, 2008

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

1. Organizational changes
Changes in the area of quality

Goals

-	To realize higher product quality with improved customer satisfaction by conducting integrated quality assurance activities from the initial stage of development to the end of mass production.

Details of the organizational changes

-	The Supplier Quality Dept. has been newly established; some functions of the Quality Assurance Dept., Quality Improvement Promotion Dept., Hiroshima Inspection Dept. and Hofu Inspection Dept. have been transferred to it.
-	The Field Quality Dept. has been renamed the Product Quality Dept.; some functions of the Quality Improvement Promotion Dept. have been transferred to it.
-	Some functions of the Quality Improvement Promotion Dept. have been transferred to the Quality Assurance Dept.
-	In line with the above changes, the Quality Improvement Promotion Dept. has been eliminated.

2. Personnel Changes
General managers and above

New Post	Current Post	Name
General Manager Quality Assurance Dept.	General Manager Hofu Inspection Dept.	Motohiko Shizuma
General Manager Product Quality Dept.	General Manager Quality Assurance Dept.	Toshiharu Ishii
General Manager Supplier Quality Dept.	General Manager Hiroshima Inspection Dept.	Toshimi Takeuchi
General Manager Hiroshima Inspection Dept.	General Manager Field Quality Dept.	Eiji Yokomachi
General Manager Hofu Inspection Dept.	General Manager Quality Improvement Promotion Dept.	Yusuke Watanuki