To Whom It May Concern

January 8, 2013

Company Name:

F&A Aqua Holdings, Inc.

Representative:

Saishi Kimura

President and Representative Director

Listing:

First Section, Tokyo Stock Exchange

Securities Code:

8008

Inquiries:

Masahiko Iwamori

Executive Director in charge of operations

Telephone:

+81-3-5719-3429

Notice of Changes in Representative Director, Organizational Structure, and Personnel

F&A Aqua Holdings, at a meeting of its Board of Directors on January 8, 2013, resolved to make the following changes in representative director, organizational structure, and personnel.

1. Change in Representative Directors (Effective March 1, 2013) (1) Reasons for the Changes

To strengthen and enhance the Group management structure, and further increase corporate value

(2) Details of Change

New Title

Former Title

Name

Chairman and Representative Director

President and Representative Director

Saishi Kimura

President and Representative Director

Executive Director responsible for F.D.C. Products Inc.,

General Manager, Marketing Dept.

and in charge of Group Store

Development (concurrent)

Hidenori Suzuki

Director and Senior Advisor (Part Time)

Chairman and Representative Director

Nobuyuki Hosoda

Retiring

Representative Director and Senior Executive Director responsible for F.D.C. Products Inc.

Hideki Tamura

(3) Name and Career Summary of the Newly Appointed Representative Director

Name Hidenori Suzuki
Date of Birth June 16, 1955
Birthplace Hiroshima Prefecture
Educational Background
Mar. 1979 Graduated Ritsumeikan University, Law Department
Career Summary
Apr. 1979 Joined F&A Aqua Holdings, Inc.
May 1997 Director at F.D.C. Products Inc.
Mar. 2006 President and Representative Director at Flags, Co., Ltd. Mar. 2008 Executive Director at F.D.C. Products Inc.
Mar. 2009 Sales Manager at F&A Aqua Holdings, Inc. (current position) Director at AS'TY Inc.
President and Representative Director at F.D.C. Friends, Inc. (current position)
May 2009 Director at F&A Aqua Holdings, Inc.
Mar. 2011 Executive Director at F&A Aqua Holdings, Inc. (current position) Senior Executive Director at F.D.C. Products Inc. (current position)
Director at MISUZU Co., Ltd. No. of Shares Owned 29,000 shares

2. Organizational Change

(1) The Operations Dept. and Finance Dept. will be restructured to form a new Operations

Dept. and Corporate Planning Dept.

3. Changes in Management Personnel (Effective March 1, 2013)

New Title

Former Title

Name

Executive Director and General Manager, Corporate Planning Dept.

in charge of Group Personnel

(concurrent)

Executive Director, Operations Representative, General Manager, Operations Dept.

in charge of Group Personnel,

and in charge of Group IT (concurrent)

Masahiko Iwamori

Executive Director responsible for F.D.C. Products Inc.

in charge of Group Store Development,

in charge of Group Overseas Retail

Operations and

in charge of Group IT (concurrent)

Director responsible for F.D.C. Products

Inc.

in charge of Group Sales Promotion and

EC

and in charge of Group Overseas Retail

Operations (concurrent)

Akihiro Takiguchi

Director and General Manager

Operations Dept.

and in charge of Group Real Estate

Management (concurrent)

Director and General Manager Finance

Dept.

and in charge of Group Real Estate

Management (concurrent)

Masahiko Nishimura

4. Retiring Directors (Effective February 28, 2013)

Current Position Title

Name

Director

Shigeo Ohki

5. Subsidiary Personnel

(1) F.D.C. Products Inc. (Effective March 1, 2013)