OMRON Announces Spin-off of Social Systems Business (Simple Absorption-type Split)

KYOTO, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Following a resolution at a Board of Directors meeting held today, OMRON Corporation (TOKYO:6645; ADR:OMRNY) announced that it will transfer the business operations of OMRON's Social Systems Solutions Business to OMRON Corporation's subsidiary company OMRON Social Solutions Co., Ltd. Based on the resolution, an absorption-type split agreement has also been signed today.

As this is a simple absorption-type corporate split in which a wholly-owned subsidiary of OMRON Corporation will take over the business activities of a business division, certain matters and items for disclosure have been omitted from the announcement.

1.	Objectives of Spin-Off
	OMRON Corporation has been promoting structural reform across its entire Group. In accordance with its policy of strengthening OMRON's social systems business announced on October 27^th 2010, this spin-off of business through a simple corporate split will create an autonomously managed industry-specific company in order to intensify profit structure reform.

2. Outline of Split
1)	Timeline
	Resolution to execute spin-off by BOD: January 28, 2011
	Signing of corporate split agreement : January 28, 2011
	Planned date of split (effective date): April 1, 2011
	Note: OMRON will implement the spin-off througha simple corporate split according to provisions of Article 784-3 of Companies Act, without seeking shareholder approval at a general meeting of shareholders, as it satisfies requirements of the said Article.
2)	Method
	An absorption-type split in which OMRON Corporation is the transferring company and OMRON Social Solutions Co. Ltd. is the assuming company.
3)	Details about share allocations
	The absorption-type split successor company will issue 98,000 common shares at the time of the spin-off, and will allocate all of these shares to OMRON Corporation.
4)	Capital reduction due to spin-off
	No capital reduction from this spin-off will occur.
5)	Handling of new stock acquisition rights and bonds with new stock acquisition rights of the transferring company
	There will no change resulting from this corporate split to the handling of new stock acquisition rights issued by OMRON Corporation. Bonds with new stock acquisition rights are not applicable.
6)	Rights and duties to be transferred to the assuming company
	The assuming company will assume rights and duties from OMRON Corporation, including assets, liabilities and contractual status required for operating the business to be assumed.
7)	Outlook on fulfillment of obligations
	No problem is envisaged regarding fulfillment of obligations of OMRON Corporation or the assuming company after the spin-off.

3. Overview of Companies Involved in the Spin-Off
	Transferring company (as of March 31, 2010)	Assuming company (as of December 31, 2010)
1) Name	OMRON Corporation	OMRON Social Solutions Co. Ltd.
2) Head office	Shiokoji Horikawa Higashi-iru, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto	Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo
3) Representative	Hisao Sakuta, President & CEO	Masaki Arao, President & CEO
4) Business	Manufacture and sale of electronic devices	Provision of comprehensive equipment, system, and service solutions for customers' management issues.
5) Capital	64,100 million yen	100 million yen
6) Established	May 10, 1933	November 1, 2010
7) Shares outstanding	239,121,372	2,000
8) Fiscal year end	March 31	March 31
9) Principal shareholders and their holdings (%)	Japan Trustee Services Bank Ltd. (trust account): 4.35% The Chase Manhattan Bank 385036: 3.58%	OMRON Corporation: 100％
(10) Financial position and operating results
	Transferring Company (consolidated)	Assuming Company
Net assets	307,135 million yen	(*Note 2)
Total assets	532,254 million yen
Net assets per share	1,391.41 yen
Net sales	524,694 million yen
Operating income	13,074 million yen
Ordinary income	10,195 million yen (*Note 1)
Net Income	3,518 million yen
Net income per share	15.98 yen
*Note1: As OMRON Corporation prepares financial statements according to the U.S.'s generally accepted accounting principles (U.S. GAAP), income before income taxes is presented in the "Ordinary income" section of the above table.
*Note 2: As the assuming company was founded very recently (November 1, 2010), there is no information relating to the company's financial position and operating results to disclose.

4. Overview of Business Division to be Spun Off
	1)	Business
		The manufacture, sale, repair, and maintenance of railway-related systems (ticket gates and ticket vending machines), road traffic-related systems (traffic control systems), etc.
	2)	Operating results
		Fiscal 2009 sales (consolidated): 57,981 million yen
	3)	Assets and liabilities to be transferred and their values (planned April 1)

Assets (non-consolidated)		Liabilities (non-consolidated)
Item	Carrying value	Item	Carrying value
Current assets	18,399 million yen	Current liabilities	4,766 million yen
Fixed assets	10,858 million yen	Fixed liabilities	1,320 million yen
Total	29,257 million yen	Total	6,086 million yen
Note: The above values of assets and liabilities to be transferred are estimates.

5. Status of OMRON Corporation and the Assuming Company after Spin-Off
(1) Status of OMRON Corporation
There will be no changes to OMRON Corporation's name, head office location, representative, business, capital, reporting period (fiscal year end), or number of shares outstanding, as a result of the spin off.

(2) Status of assuming company
	Assuming company (planned, April 1, 2011)
1) Name	OMRON Social Solutions Co. Ltd.
2) Head office	2-3-13, Konan, Minato-ku, Tokyo
3) Representative	Kiichiro Kondo, President & CEO
4) Business	Provision of comprehensive equipment, system, and service solutions for customers' management issues.
5) Capital	5,000 million yen
6) Fiscal year end	March 31
7) Shares outstanding	100,000

6. Outlook

This spin-off will have no major impact on OMRON Corporation's consolidated financial results for fiscal 2010 (ending March 31, 2011).