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About Toyota

company :

Toyota is deeply committed to being a great community partner and is focused on


supporting programs in ways that achieve long-term sustainable results. Toyota
supports numerous organizations across the country, with a particular
concentration on education, the environment and safety.  Since 1991, Toyota has
contributed more than half a billion dollars to philanthropic programs across the
U.S.
Corporate Social
Responsibility
• Toyota Global Vision is represented in the form of a tree where Toyota values
represent the roots of the tree, stable base of the business is the trunk of the
tree. The concepts of ‘Always Better Cars’ and ‘Enriching Lives of
Communities’ are positioned as fruits of the tree. In other words, Toyota Global
Vision places an equal emphasis on the primary objective of profit
maximization (Always Better Cars) and CSR (Enriching Lives of Communities).

The company releases Global Responsibility Report annually and it includes the
details of Toyota CSR programs and initiatives engaged by the company. Table 3
below illustrates highlights from the latest report for 2014
Health and safety

Quality Control (QC) circles have been instituted at Toyota to increase the
vitality of people and workplaces. As of March 2015, approximately 4,100
circles involving approximately 36,000 members were active in Japan, and
approximately 13,000 circles involving approximately 99,000 members
were active abroadToyota conducts genchi genbutsu safety inspections
regularly to ensure the safety of employees and visitors to the company.
Environment, Water consumption,
Recycling, CO2 emissions
• Rainwater collection has been implemented by Toyota to reduce the amount of water usage
in its plants
• Toyota engages in recycling in the following four directions:
• (1) utilization of eco-friendly materials; (2) making use of parts longer; (3) development of
recycling technology; (4) making vehicles from the materials of end-of-life vehicles.
• The company aims to improve the global average fuel efficiency by 25% by FY2015,
compared to FY2005
• As of December 31, 2013, use of Toyota hybrids* had resulted in approximately 41 million
fewer tons of CO2 emissions
• “New Vehicle Zero CO2 Challenge,” initiative aims to reduce vehicle CO2 emissions by 90
percent in comparison with 2010 levels, by 2050
Supporting local  communities
• Toyota promotes local purchasing globally
Gender equality and minorities
• As a result of relevant set of initiatives the number of women in
managerial positions has increased from 16 in 2004 to 111 in
2015.Toyota aims to increase the number of women in managerial
positions in 2020 by three times the number in 2014
Other initiatives
• Toyota has initiated a number of road safety education programs which
include issuing nearly 134 million copies of traffic safety picture books
to preschool and kindergarten children around Japan, and nearly 1.5
million copies of traffic safety picture-card sets. Moreover, TeenDrive in
the US and White Road Campaign in Thailand are among road safety
educational initiatives launched by Toyota outside of Japan.CSR
workshop and education programs are organized for suppliers in Japan
and abroad participation in which is voluntary

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