date:Jun 25, 2014
ond-biggest convenience store chain, the 55-year-old, fluent English-speaking Niinami brings experience of managing international operations, answering shareholder concerns, and a thick contacts book that includes Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the successful Tokyo 2020 Olympic bid committee.
In a year of major changes at the company that introduced single malt whisky to Japan in the 1920s, Suntory's 1.6 trillion yen ($15.7 billion) purchase of U.S. drinks company Beam was the third-biggest over