Toyota

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Toyota Motor Corporation

Toyota's new headquarters building in Toyota City, Japan

Native name

Romanizedname

Toyota Jidosha KK

Type

Public (K.K.)

Traded as

TYO: 7203
LSE: TYT
NYSE: TM

Industry

Automotive

Founded

August 28, 1937

Founder

Kiichiro Toyoda

Headquarters

Toyota, Aichi, Japan

Area served

Worldwide

Key people
Takeshi Uchiyamada (Chairman)
Akio Toyoda (President and CEO)
Automobiles, luxury vehicles,commercial

Products

vehicles, engines, motorcycles

Production output

9,909,440 units (CY 2012)[1]

Banking, financing, leasing

Services

22.064 trillion (FY 2013) [2]US$252

Revenue

billion (FY 2014)[3]

Operating income

1.320 trillion (FY 2013) [2]

Profit

962.1 billion (FY 2013)[2]

Total assets

US$377.281 billion (2013) [4]

Total equity

12.773 trillion (FY 2013)[2]

Owner
Japan Trustee Services Bank(9.61%)
Toyota Industries Corporation(6.48%)
The Master Trust Bank of
Japan(5.27%)
State Street Bank and Trust
Company (3.72%)
Nippon Life Insurance
Company (3.54%)
Number of

338,875 [5]

employees
Divisions
Lexus
Scion
Subsidiaries

545[6]
List[show]
Toyota Global

Website

Toyota Motor Corporation (Japanese: Hepburn: Toyota

Jidsha KK , IPA: [tojota], /tot/) is a Japanese automotive manufacturer headquartered
in Toyota, Aichi, Japan. In March 2014 the multinational corporation consisted of 338,875
employees worldwide[5] and, as of November 2014, is the twelfth-largest company in the world by
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revenue. Toyota was the largest automobile manufacturer in 2012 (by production) ahead of
theVolkswagen Group and General Motors.[7] In July of that year, the company reported the
production of its 200-millionth vehicle.[8] Toyota is the world's first automobile manufacturer to
produce more than 10 million vehicles per year. It did so in 2012 according to OICA, [7] and in 2013
according to company data.[9] As of July 2014, Toyota was the largest listed company in Japan
by market capitalization (worth more than twice as much as #2-ranked SoftBank)[10] and by
revenue.[11]
The company was founded by Kiichiro Toyoda in 1937 as a spinoff from his
father's company Toyota Industries to creat