Akio Shigemitsu appointed as owner of Professional Baseball Lotte Top management of parent company March 24 21:11
Akio Shigemitsu, the second son of the founder of the Lotte Group and currently the top management of the parent company, has been appointed as the new owner of professional baseball Lotte.
The Lotte team was founded by a major confectionery manufacturer, Lotte, and had been owned by Takeo Shigemitsu, who was the Honorary Chairman of the parent company, Lotte Holdings, for nearly 50 years. was.
As a result, Akio, the second son of Takeo and Vice Chairman of Lotte Holdings, will assume the role of new owner, and will be officially approved by the baseball team's General Meeting of Shareholders and the Board of Directors on April 24. it was done.
Akio Shigemitsu is 65 years old. Next month, he will become the chairman of Lotte Holdings, and has been chairman of the Lotte Group in Korea for nine years.
He has been acting as a team owner since 1995, but was convicted of bribery in a series of cases involving former President Park Geun-hye and retired in February. Was.