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Company Name: Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc.
Representative: Masatoshi Matsuzaki, President and CEO
Stock Exchange Listings: Tokyo, Osaka (First Sections)
Local Securities Code Number: 4902
Contact: Masayuki Takahashi, General Manager, Corporate Communications & Branding Division
Tel: (81) 3-6250-2100

Tokyo ( August 19, 2009) - On August 4, 2009, Konica Minolta Holdings, Inc. (hereinafter, “ the Company ” ) decided to offer stock acquisition rights in the form of compensation-type stock options to its directors (excluding outside directors) and executive officers, and today, undetermined part have been fixed as follows:

1. Persons Eligible for the Allotment of Stock Acquisition Rights, the Number of Persons, and the Number of Stock Acquisition Rights to be Allotted:

A total of 399 stock acquisition rights will be allotted to a total of 25 persons, with 61 to three directors, excluding outside directors, and 338 to 22 executive officers. It should be noted that five of the 22 executive officers concurrently serve as directors.

2. Total Number of the Stock Acquisition Rights:

399.

3. Type and Number of Shares Underlining the Stock Acquisition Rights:

The type of shares underlining the stock acquisition rights shall be the Company’ s common stock, and the number of shares issued upon the exercise of each stock acquisition right (hereinafter referred to as the “ number of shares granted” ) is 500. (The total number of shares for the 399 stock acquisition rights as stated in the (2) above amounts to 199,500 shares.)

However, if the Company splits or consolidates its common stock (including allotting shares of the Company’ s common stock free of charge), the number of shares granted shall be adjusted by the following formula, and any fraction less than one share resulting from adjustment will be rounded down to the nearest one whole share.

Post-adjustment number of shares granted =
Pre-adjustment number of shares granted x the stock split or consolidation ratio

In addition to the above, if unavoidable circumstances necessitate an adjustment to the number of shares granted, it shall be adjusted to the extent reasonable.

4. Amount to be Paid in Exchange for Stock Acquisition Rights:

387,500 yen in exchange for one stock acquisition right
(775 yen per share).

5. Amount of Property to be Provided as Contribution upon the Exercise of Stock Acquisition Rights:

500 yen per stock acquisition right
(one yen per share)

Note: For more details of the stock acquisition rights other than the above, please refer to the “ Notice on the Allotment of Stock Options (Stock Acquisition Rights) as announced on August 4, 2009.