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2005-07-07
- Nobuaki Matsuo Retires as UST President/CEO
After Five Winning Seasons |
Fort Worth,
TX –United Sports Technologies® (UST),
one of the largest and most innovative high performance
golf shaft companies in the world, announced
the retirement of long-time President & CEO
Nobuaki (Matt) Matsuo effective July 2005. During
Mr. Matsuo five-year tenure UST experienced record
growth while maximizing its presence and influence
on every major golf tour in the world. In 2005,
UST has continued to significantly increase its
PGA, European and Asian Tours shaft count.
Mitsunori Takizawa, UST’s newly appointed
Chief Executive Officer, commented that “Mr.
Matsuo did an outstanding job helping UST grow
into one of the largest and most respected high
performances golf shaft companies in the world.
Just as importantly, he leaves behind one of
the best and most experienced management teams
in the business.”
Mr. Takizawa, a long-time executive with UST’s
parent company Mamiya-OP, stated that the challenge
ahead for him and his newly appointed Chief Operating
Officer Satoru Suzuki, is to take UST to the
next level. “I think UST is perfectly
positioned to break out of the pack. With the
newly released Proforce® V2 shaft, along
with IROD® the world’s first hybrid
utility shafts, Harmon® HTD counter balanced
shafts and the Tour favorite ACCRA® shafts,
UST is recognized by most professional golfers
as the most innovate, high performance shaft
company in the world.
“Our goal is to extend our success on the
professional tours to every country club and
retail golf shop
in the world and I believe that we have the team
in place to compete at the highest level” he
concluded.
Mr. Takizawa confirmed that UST headquarters,
and its day-to-day operations, will remain at
its facility in Fort Worth, Texas, along with
its U.S. management team. UST’s additional
manufacturing facilities in China and Bangladesh
will continue to report to Fort Worth and Mr.
Takizawa. |
United
Sports Technologies makes graphite golf shafts
for golf consumers and many original equipment
manufacturers, such as Nike, Tommy Armour, Sonartec, Wilson Sporting Goods, Hogan, Spalding, and many
others. UST also produces and distributes such
world-renown graphite shaft brands as Proforce,
ACCRA, PURE Gold, IROD and Harmon Tour Design
which are played in more than 100 tour events
on the PGA, SPGA, Nationwide and European tours.
Headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, UST operates
four manufacturing facilities throughout the world
and produces more than four million graphite shafts
a year for original equipment manufacturers and
custom clubmakers. For more information about
UST, please visit our website at www.ustgolfshaft.com.
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reserved. |
