Credit Suisse Hires Nomura's Okihira as Food, Tobacco Analyst

Source from:  By Tomoko Yamazaki July 1 (Bloomberg) 07/01/2008

Credit Suisse Group, Switzerland's second-largest bank, hired Yoshiyasu Okihira, from Nomura Holdings Inc., as an analyst covering Japan's food, beverage and tobacco industries to strengthen its equity business. Okihira was ranked fourth among the food sector analysts in this year's Nikkei analyst ranking survey, according to a statement obtained by Bloomberg. He began his career at Nomura, Japan's biggest brokerage, in 1993 after graduating from Waseda University, the statement said. To contact the reporter on this story: Tomoko Yamazaki in Tokyo at tyamazaki@bloomberg.net. Enditem