Hisao Sakuta to Retire as Director and Chairman of OMRON Corporation on June 20, 2013

OMRON Corporation specializes in manufacturing and marketing industrial automation systems. Net sales break down by family of products as follows: - industrial automation systems (56.7%): sensors, switches, programmable controllers, automatic optical inspection devices, temperature control systems, etc.; - medical equipments (17.4%): thermometers, blood pressure monitors, etc.; - electronic and mechanical devices and modules (14%); - social infrastructure solutions and systems (11.5%): energy and environmental solutions, public transport automation solutions (automatic doors, automated ticket vending machines, etc.), road traffic control systems, security, payment and network protection systems, etc.; - other (0.4%). Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Japan (38%), China (25.7%), Europe (15.8%), Americas (10.3%) and other (10.2%).