LAWSON Announces Personnel Changes

2007/02/20

LAWSON, INC. has announced personnel changes of the executive members. Personnel changes of board members and corporate auditors would be effective after approval of the general meeting of shareholders on May 25, 2007.

Executive personnel changes (Effective March 1, 2007)

New Positions	Name	Current Positions
Member of the Board Senior Executive Vice President (Retirement from the board on May 25, 2007)	Eiichi Tanabe	Member of the Board Senior Executive Vice President Chief Financial Officer (CFO); In charge of Corporate Planning Office
Executive Vice President Chief Financial Officer (CFO); In charge of Corporate Planning Office (Newly nominated appointee for the board members from May 25, 2007)	Yoshiyuki Yahagi	Executive Assistant to CEO

Executive personnel changes (Effective April 1, 2007)

New Positions Name Current Positions

Senior Vice President Executive Assistant to CIO Yoichi Yokomizo Executive Director,
i2 Tehnologies Japan, Inc.

Newly nominated appointees for the board members (From May 25, 2007)
Name Current Position
Yoshiyuki Yahagi Senior Vice President
Executive Assistant to CEO
(Executive Vice President-to-be from March 1, 2007)

Renominated appointee for corporate auditors (From May 25, 2007)

Name Current Position

Tetsuo Ozawa Corporate auditor
Lawyer

Hiroshi Kuwata Corporate auditor
Manager,
Risk Management Department, Mitsubishi Corporation

Retirement from the board (From May 25, 2007)

Name Current Position

Eiichi Tanabe Member of the Board
Senior Executive Vice President Chief Financial Officer (CFO);
In charge of Corporate Planning Office

Koji Furukawa Member of the Board
Senior Adviser to the President, Mitsubishi Corporation

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