Executive Profile
Name: Toshiyuki Tanaka
Age: 41
Position: Executive vice president, Marui Imai Hawaii Inc.
First job: Department store worker
Favorite pastime: Marathon running
"This is more fashionable and sophisticated, and based on a skateball or soccer look," said Toshiyuki Tanaka, recently named executive vice president and general manager. The company has eight stores in Hawaii including the new MIX store at the Waikiki Shopping Plaza, which stocks the new street fashions.
Marui Imai Inc. is a department store chain located in major cities of Hokkaido in northern Japan. Tanaka heads the Hawaii and Guam/Saipan operations.
His job will be to add diversity to the Benetton image by adding new lines and giving each store a more individual personality.
He joined the company in 1978 as a sales clerk and later became chief of planning for the living division.
Tanka is a graduate of Ritsumeikan University in Japan where he studied industrial sociology.