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FUJI OIL HOLDINGS

New Name, Fuji Oil Europe, starts

2001.2.1

As told in a previous news article, Fuji Oil Co., Ltd. has purchased from N.V. Vandemoortele in Belgium the share of its Belgium group company, Vamo-Fuji N.V. The presidents of both companies met for signing on January 29th.

Immediately after the share transaction took place, Vamo Fuji held a shareholder's and board meeting and decided on a new company name and on the new company officers. The results are given below.

New company name : Fuji Oil Europe
Company representative :Tetsuya Uchiyama, President (from Fuji Oil Co., Ltd.)
Capital :12.9 million Euro
Location :Kuhlmannlaan 36, B-9042, Gent, Belgium