Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc.
Konica Minolta Photo Imaging, Inc. / Konica Minolta Camera, Inc.
February 19, 2004

Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc. (president: Fumio Iwai) announces the unofficial appointment of Hideaki Iwama as President and Chief Executive Officer of Konica Minolta Photo Imaging, Inc. a wholly owned new business company to be formed on April 1, 2004, by merging Konica Minolta Photo Imaging, Inc. and Konica Minolta Camera, Inc.

The current President of Chief Executive Officer of Konica Minolta Camera, Inc. will be named Vice President of the new Konica Minolta Photo Imaging, Inc.

Iwama joined Konica Corporation (formerly Konishiroku Photo Ind. Co., Ltd.) in 1966 after graduating from Faculty of Engineering, Yokohama National University. Since then, he has a wealth of experience in the photographic industry. He became General Manager of International Sales and Marketing of Graphic Arts Division in 1984, and became President and CEO of Konica Imaging U.S.A., Inc. in 1990. Back in Japan in 1998, he took the post of General Manager of Management Planning within Corporate Planning Dept. In 2001, he rose to the position of Executive Officer and Company President of Consumer Imaging Company, an internal company of Konica Corporation. After the management integration with Minolta Co., Ltd. in August 2003, he became Senior Executive Officer of Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc. and President and CEO of Konica Photo Imaging Corporation. Currently, after the business reorganization of Konica Minolta Group in October 2003, he is Senior Executive Officer of Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc. and President and CEO of Konica Minolta Photo Imaging, Inc.

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