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Company name | Toyota Motor Corporation Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki-gaisha トヨタ自動車株式会社 | Company type | Public company Tyo - 7203 Lse - TYT Nyse - TM | Industry |
*Automotive
*Robotics
*Financial services
| Founded | August 28, 1937 | Founder(s) | Kiichiro Toyoda | Headquarters | Toyota, Aichi, Japan | Area served | Worldwide | Key people |
* Fujio Cho (Chairman and Representative Director)
* Akio Toyoda (President and Representative Director)
| Products | Automobiles Financial Services | Production output | (-)7,308,039 units (FY2011)
| Revenue | (+) (FY2011) (US $235.89 billion) | Operating income | (+) (FY2011) (US $5.82 billion) | Net income | (+) (FY2011) (US $5.07 billion) | Total assets | (-) (FY2011) (US $370.3 billion) | Total equity | (-) (FY2011) (US $128.32 billion) | Employees | 317,734 (2010) | Parent | Toyota Group | Divisions | | Subsidiary | |
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|}, Lse - TYT, Nyse - TM, commonly known simply as Toyota and abbreviated as TMC, is a multinational automaker headquartered in Toyota, Aichi, Japan. In 2010, Toyota Motor Corporation employed 317,734 people worldwide, and was the world's largest automobile manufacturer by production.
The company was founded by Kiichiro Toyoda in 1937 as a spinoff from his father's company Toyota Industries to create automobiles. Three years earlier, in 1934, while still a department of Toyota Industries, it created its first product, the Type A engine, and, in 1936, its first passenger car, the Toyota AA. Toyota Motor Corporation group companies are Toyota (including the Scion brand), Lexus, Daihatsu and Hino Motors, along with several "non-automotive" companies. TMC is part of the Toyota Group, one of the largest conglomerates in the world.
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