Osaka Soda Co., Ltd. announced that Tamotsu Sato, Representative Director, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, expressed his intention to resign from the position of Representative Director, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer on April 22, 2019. Tamotsu Sato now will be as Director (Part-time). Tamotsu Sato will retire as Director at the end of the Ordinary General Shareholders Meeting scheduled to be held towards the end of June 2019.