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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 (Tyo - 7203) & (Nyse - TM) | | Industry |
*Automotive
*Robotics
*Financial services
*Biotechnology
| | Founded | August 28, 1937 | | Founder(s) | Kiichiro Toyoda | | Headquarters | Toyota City, Aichi, Japan | | Area served | Worldwide | | Key people | | | Products |
*Automobiles
*Financial Services
| | Revenue | (-) JPY 18,950,973 million (FY2010) | | Operating income | (+) JPY 147,516 million (FY2010) | | Net income | (+) JPY 209,456 million (FY2010) | | Total assets | (+) JPY 30,349,287 million (FY2010) | | Total equity | (+) JPY 10,359,723 million (FY2010) | | Employees | 71,116 (for TMC, total Toyota 320,808) | | Divisions | *Lexus
*Scion |
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|}, Nyse - TM, commonly known simply as Toyota and abbreviated as TMC, is a multinational corporation headquartered in Japan. In 2009, Toyota Motor Corporation employed 71,116 people worldwide (total Toyota 320,808). TMC is the world's largest automobile maker by sales and 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.
Toyota Motor Corporation is headquartered in Toyota City, Aichi and in Tokyo. In addition to manufacturing automobiles, Toyota provides financial services through its Toyota Financial Services division and also builds robots.
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