Securing Growth and Improved Profitability From FY 2004

 This February, NSK undertook a major organizational shakeup.
In the continuously changing global business environment, it is vital that NSK Headquarters take a firm grip on management of the entire NSK Group.
The highlight of this latest reorganization is that we have changed the previous “product-oriented” organization to a “customer-oriented” organization. Division-headquarters have now been given total control of the entire product area, from marketing and sales, production, through to R&D.
 Division-headquarters will not only manage domestic production sites, as they did before, but will also supervise overseas production, thus clarifying business responsibility.
The traditional intertwined authority lines that necessitated repetitive reporting to different managers has been untangled, with all sections in the business process reporting vertically to their respective division-headquarters, enabling the swift implementation of business decisions.
 The new Automotive Division-Headquarters will now control four product units: automotive bearings, steering systems, automatic transmission components, and needle bearings, with senior management appointed to manage each of these four units.
 The Bearings Division-Headquarters will be integrated into the new Industrial Machinery Bearings Division-Headquarters to strengthen our involvement in the global expansion of bearing sales to the general industrial sector. The functions of the former Marketing Division-Headquarters will be broken up and integrated into the relevant new product division-headquarters, and the Marketing Division dissolved.