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Toyota Motor Co. was established as an independent and separate company in 1937. Although the founding family's name was written in the Kanji "豊田" (rendered as "Toyoda"), the company name was changed to a similar word in katakana - トヨタ (rendered as "Toyota") because the latter has 8 strokes which is regarded as a lucky number in East Asian culture. [3]
It was founded by Kiichiro Toyoda and incorporated on August 28, 1937. Toyota is the largest automobile manufacturer in the world, producing about 10 million vehicles per year. The company was originally founded as a spinoff of Toyota Industries, a machine maker started by Sakichi Toyoda, Kiichiro's father.
Kyoho kai group – Auto parts company – 211 companies. Kyouei kai group – Logistic/facility company – 123 companies. KDDI (Toyota owns 11.09% of the company); Nagoya Broadcasting Network (Toyota owns 34.6% and is the largest single shareholder in the company; 36.9% of the stock are directly and indirectly (through TV Asahi Holdings Corporation) owned by the Asahi Shimbun Company, making ...
Rear-wheel-drive luxury sedan available in hybrid and fuel cell hydrogen powertrains. S235 (crossover) 2022. Japan, North America and others. All-wheel-drive luxury crossover sedan marketed in Japan and North America. Oldest Toyota passenger car nameplate still in use. Hybrid powertrain is standard. Mirai.
Toyota Motor North America (TMNA) is the operating subsidiary that oversees all operations of the Toyota Motor Corporation in Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Its operations include research and development, manufacturing, sales, marketing, after sales and corporate functions, which are controlled by TMNA but sometimes executed by other subsidiaries and holding companies.
TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s top automaker Toyota agreed Thursday to work with Idemitsu, a major Japanese oil company, on technology for mass production of solid-state batteries that promise to be a ...
Kiichiro Toyoda ( Japanese: 豊田 喜一郎 とよだ きいちろう, Hepburn: Toyoda Kiichirō, June 11, 1894 – March 27, 1952) was a Japanese businessman and the son of Toyoda Loom Works founder Sakichi Toyoda. His decision to change Toyoda's focus from automatic loom manufacture into automobile manufacturing created what later became ...
The Toyota Production System ( TPS) is an integrated socio-technical system, developed by Toyota, that comprises its management philosophy and practices. The TPS is a management system [ 1] that organizes manufacturing and logistics for the automobile manufacturer, including interaction with suppliers and customers.