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SATO Appoints Hayato Shindo as Head of Asia

Tokyo, July 2, 2015 – SATO (TSE:6287), a leading global provider of Auto-ID solutions that empower workforces and streamline operations, today announced the appointment of Hayato Shindo as its new Head of Asia. Shindo, who currently serves as the Managing Director of SATO Auto-ID Thailand, will take on the role effective immediately.

Shindo has spent 15 years with SATO, holding positions of increasing responsibility in sales and management of overseas subsidiaries. He has worked across Japan, China and South East Asia. In his new role as Head of Asia, he will continue to manage operations at SATO Auto-ID Thailand, while working to oversee SATO’s expansion across the region, covering Singapore, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines and South Korea.

Shindo will improve communication and collaboration in SATO’s Asian subsidiaries to better serve global and regional accounts, and focus on expanding the local customer base on a country to country basis, promoting SATO’s integrated solutions.

“Shindo-san has been instrumental in growing SATO’s presence in China and Thailand,” said Kaz Matsuyama, President and CEO of SATO Holdings. “Asia is a key growth market, and I am confident in Shindo-san’s abilities to build on his past success in the region. He is the youngest executive to take on a regional leadership role, I am very happy to be able to hand things over to someone with the energy drive and ambition to pave the way for a new generation of leadership at SATO.”

“It is great to have your past achievements recognized,” said Shindo. “Asia is an exciting place to be and there is huge potential for growth across logistics, manufacturing, retail, food and healthcare markets. I look forward to working with customers on a local, one-on-one basis, so that they can get the most out of SATO’s AIDC solutions and deep industry experience.”

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Daphne Tay
Public Relations Group SATO Holdings Corporation
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About SATO

SATO (TOKYO:6287) is a global auto-ID solutions provider for leading manufacturing, logistics, retail, food & beverage, health care companies. With a bottom-up understanding of on-site use applications, SATO tags items with identifiers to improve supply chain flows of tomorrow by solving managerial and operational challenges of today. An industry pioneer with 79 years of expertise and a 5,000+ strong global workforce in 27 countries, SATO engineers solutions to streamline operations, boost accuracy, support sustainability initiatives, provide assurance and emotional connections, extending value all the way to the consumer. For the fiscal year ending March 31, 2019, it reported revenues of JPY 116,179 million (USD 1.05 billion*). More information about SATO can be found at www.satoworldwide.com, LinkedIn and Twitter.

*Conversion is based on an average exchange rate of 1 US Dollar = 110.92 Japanese Yen

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Public Relations Group,
SATO Holdings Corporation
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