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The proposed candidates are Eric Johnson, Yuko Tashiro, and Marc-Andre Tousignant. The company emphasizes strengthening the supervisory function of outside directors and reports progress on fixed-cost reductions and profit-structure reforms following Takara Bio's conversion to a wholly owned subsidiary. The extraordinary meeting is scheduled for December 16, 2026.","jir_summary":"### Convening of Extraordinary General Meeting and Proposals\nTakara Holdings received a request from ValueAct to convene an extraordinary general meeting and resolved to hold the meeting on December 16 at Rihga Royal Hotel Kyoto. Proposals 1\u20133 seek the removal of three incumbent outside directors, and Proposals 4\u20136 seek the appointment of three new outside directors. The board maintains that the current outside directors exercise strong supervisory functions and opposes their removal.\n\n### New Nominees and Rationale for the Proposal\nValueAct has proposed Eric Johnson, Yuko Tashiro, and Marc-Andre Tousignant as new outside director candidates. Johnson brings CEO experience at JSR; Tashiro has financial and audit experience including serving as an outside director at McDonald's Holdings Company (Japan); Tousignant has CFO and corporate finance experience at Suntory Global Spirits. The removal of the three incumbents is justified by ValueAct as a failure of supervisory function, and these three candidates are presented as replacements.","jir_financial_highlights":"Upward revision of consolidated earnings forecast for FY ending March 2027: Unknown (Unknown)","jir_category":"","jir_hashtags":"#TakaraHoldings, https_status_not_used_in_hashtags, ","jir_key_figures":"New nominees: Eric Johnson, Yuko Tashiro, Marc-Andre Tousignant\nProposals 4-6: Approval of the three new directors is conditional (determined according to number of vacancies)\nExtraordinary general meeting date: 2026-12-16","jir_meta_title":"Takara Holdings Inc. Notice of Extraordinary General Meeting and Director Nominee Proposals\uff5cMeeting Scheduled December 2026","jir_meta_description":"Takara Holdings Inc. publishes the board's view on ValueAct's request to convene an extraordinary general meeting. Summarizes the removal and appointment proposals, backgrounds of the proposed nominees, and the meeting date.","jir_og_title":"Takara Holdings Inc. Notice of Extraordinary General Meeting and Director Nominee Proposals","jir_og_description":"Board opinion on the convening of an extraordinary general meeting and shareholder proposals. Summary of nominees' backgrounds and the scheduled meeting date.","jir_og_image_url":"\/assets\/og\/company-general_ir.jpg","jir_chart_data_collection":"[]","ir_related_company":8130,"ir_release_date":"","ir_type":"","ir_is_new":false,"ir_document_url":"","jir_ir_type":"executive_change","footnotes":""},"sector":[],"importance":[],"class_list":["post-147115","ir_release","type-ir_release","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n