January 10, 2006 Press Release Announcement of Organizational and Personnel Changes Effective January 1, 2006 KENWOOD Corporation (President and CEO: Haruo Kawahara; Head Office: Hachioji, Tokyo) will implement the following organizational and personnel changes effective January 1, 2006. 1.Purpose of Organizational and Personnel Changes Effective January 1, 2006 The organization of the Consumer Business Development Center will undergo restructuring in order to strengthen the approach on new development themes as well as ones related to several different business divisions and to promptly comply with rapidly compounding and innovating technologies in the consumer electronics field, and to improve the entire company’s development efficiency. Moreover, the Value Creation Division (VCD) under the Consumer Business Development Center will be progressively dissolved in conjunction with this, and its role will be transferred to the newly established Consumer Electronics Development Department. 2.Principle Organizational Changes (1) The Advanced Development Department, Device Development Department and Consumer Electronics Development Department will come under the Consumer Business Development Center (Level 1 unit).     Advanced Development Department (Level 2 unit) It will engage in the promotion of developing telecommunication-related technologies focusing on the development of next generation element technologies. Device Development Department (Level 2 unit) It will engage in the design development and mass-production support of optical devices such as optical pickups and optical microphones. Consumer Electronics Development Department (Level 2 unit) It will engage in joint development activities with various individual business divisions for the development of upcoming precedent products/technologies close to market release.   (2) Through the review of our e-business related organizational structure, the E-Business Management Project will be newly established in order to correspond to progress of digital/network technologies and its associated change of market. 3.Principle Personnel Transfers Name New Duties Previous Duties Masachika Komiyama General Executive of Consumer Business Development Center Chief Engineer of Home Electronics Div. General Executive of Consumer Business Development Center Senior Manager of Advanced Development Dept., Consumer Business Development Center Chief Engineer of Home Electronics Div. Hiromichi Wasai Assistant to General Executive of Car Electronics Consumer Div. Operation Manager of Value Creation Div., Consumer Business Development Center Yoshio Sonoda Senior Manager of Advanced Development Dept., Consumer Business Development Center Senior Specialist of Advanced Development Dept., Consumer Business Development Center Shoichi Suzuki Senior Specialist of Consumer Electronics Development Dept., Consumer Business Development Center Senior Manager of Digital Broadcast System Development Dept., Consumer Business Development Center Soju Goto Senior Manager of Consumer Electronics Development Dept., Consumer Business Development Center Senior Manager of CE Platform Development Dept., Consumer Business Development Center Shuichi Tanaka Senior Specialist of Consumer Electronics Development Dept., Consumer Business Development Center Senior Manager of HE Platform Development Dept., Consumer Business Development Center Takeshi Naito Senior Specialist of Consumer Electronics Development Dept., Consumer Business Development Center Senior Specialist of CE Platform Development Dept., Consumer Business Development Center Isamu Iwai Senior Specialist of Consumer Electronics Development Dept., Consumer Business Development Center Senior Specialist of HE Platform Development Dept., Consumer Business Development Center Yasuyuki Nakajima Leader of E-business Management Project Assistant to Operation Manager of Consumer Business Development Center Senior Specialist of Value Creation Div., Consumer Business Development Center Junichi Hayakawa Senior Specialist of Consumer Electronics Development Dept., Consumer Business Development Center Senior Specialist (Sound Meister) of Sound Quality Research Office, Car Electronics OEM Div. Senior Specialist (Sound Meister) of Sound Quality Research Office, Home Electronics Div. Senior Specialist (Sound Meister) of Speaker System Div. Senior Specialist (Sound Meister) of Value Creation Div., Consumer Business Development Center Senior Specialist (Sound Meister) of Sound Quality Research Office, Car Electronics OEM Div. Senior Specialist (Sound Meister) of Sound Quality Research Office, Home Electronics Div. Senior Specialist (Sound Meister) of Speaker System Div. Yukinori Otani Chief Specialist of Car Electronics Multimedia Div. Chief Specialist of Car Electronics Multimedia Div. Chief Specialist of Value Creation Div., Consumer Business Development Center Koushi Yamamoto Senior Manager of Business Development Office, Strategic Business Planning Div. Senior Manager of Business Development Office, Strategic Business Planning Div. Value Creation Div., Consumer Business Development Center Tadashi Muromoto Senior Manager of Strategic Procurement Dept., Procurement Div. Senior Manager of Strategic Procurement Dept., Procurement Div. President of KENWOOD Electronics Bretagne S.A. Yasunori Kurimoto President of KENWOOD Electronics Bretagne S.A. Deputy President of KENWOOD Electronics Bretagne S.A. The KENWOOD Corporation is “Reaching out to discover, inspire and enhance the enjoyment of life” as part of its bold, new vision for the future. A leader in “Mobile & Home Multimedia Systems”, KENWOOD is comprised of three business units (Car Electronics, Communications and Home Electronics), 12 domestic and 24 overseas subsidiaries around the world. For inquiries regarding this article, please contact: Public & Investor Relations Office, Corporate Relations Division, KENWOOD Corporation TEL: +81 426 46 6724  FAX: +81 426 46 1440  E-mail: pr.qa@pr.kenwood.co.jp

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