Dentsu Soken announces stock split and major restructuring

Dentsu Soken Inc. announced a 3-for-1 stock split, effective January 1, 2026, with a record date of December 31, 2025. This split will increase total outstanding shares from 65,182,480 to 195,547,440 and total authorized shares from 196,000,000 to 588,000,000 to reduce the investment unit and boost liquidity. The year-end dividend for fiscal 2025 will be based on pre-split share counts.

Concurrently, the company is undertaking a significant organizational restructuring, effective January 1, 2026. This includes reorganizing the group management solution business operations and HCM business operations into new sales and technology headquarters. The human resources strategy division will integrate into the corporate strategy division. The restructuring also involves renaming the management strategy division to the "management strategy office" and integrating the human resources strategy division into the "corporate division."

Alongside these changes, Dentsu Soken will appoint 19 executive officers, including new roles such as president and representative director, CEO & COO Hirohisa Iwamoto. Director Makoto Senoo will be a new addition to the board. Atsuhiro Sekiguchi is set to retire, and Masato Ono will be proposed as a new outside director and audit committee member at the 51st general meeting of shareholders on March 23, 2026.