One year into the role as President and CEO of Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corporation (TNSC), Yujiro Ichihara has already been in at the deep end of a busy period of project and investment activity.
A long-term member of the TNSC family having joined Nippon Sanso Corporation in 1974, Ichihara was named President and CEO in June 2014. The appointment arguably spelled the start of a new phase of development for the group, a decade since its formation via the merger of Nippon Sanso Corporation and Taiyo Toyo Sanso Co., Ltd. in October 2004, and with TNSC still recovering from the effects of recent economic crises.
The global economic crash of 2008 and the consequences of the great East Japan Earthquake in 2011 both saw TNSC’s business performance significantly deteriorate. By 2014, the company had seen a satisfactory recovery in its performance and, since Ichihara’s appointment, had embarked upon its new three-year medium term management plan, Ortus Stage 1.
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