Tepco Chief Pressured to Quit After Costing Holders $29 Billion
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Tokyo Electric Power Co. President Masataka Shimizu is facing calls to quit after the crisis at the utility’s Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant capped a tenure that has seen $29 billion wiped off the company’s market value.
The share price decline since Shimizu took charge in June 2008 at Tepco, as the company is known, has deepened to 73 percent in the aftermath of the nuclear disaster, as of today’s close in Tokyo. That’s the worst performance of any of the 88 members of the MSCI World Utilities Index and of the 17 companies in the Topix Electric Power & Gas Index.