Toyota Motor Corporation. The Group 's principal activities are to manufacture and sell automobiles and provide financial services. The Group operates through three segments: Automotive, Financial Services and Other. Automotive segment designs, manufactures, assembles and sells passenger cars, recreational and sport-utility vehicles, minivans and trucks and related parts and accessories. Financial services segment provides financing to dealers and their customers for the purchase or lease of Toyota vehicles. Other services segment provides intelligent transport systems, information technology-based systems encompassing car multimedia systems, on-board intelligent systems, advanced transportation systems and transportation infrastructure and logistics systems. The Group sells vehicles in 140 countries and other regions. During the year 2004, the Group acquired Toyota Auto Body Co Ltd, Kanto Auto Works Ltd, Central Motor Co Ltd and PT Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indonesia.
Competitor Analysis
Toyota Motor Corporation operates within the Motor vehicles and car bodies sector. This analysis compares Toyota Motor with three other automobile manufacturers in Australasia: Mazda Motor Corporation (2005 sales of 2.70 trillion Japanese Yen [US$23.18 billion] of which 73% was Vehicles), Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (8.65 trillion Japanese Yen [US$74.39 billion] of which 81% was Automobile Business), and Nissan Motor Co Ltd (8.58 trillion Japanese Yen [US$73.76 billion] of which 95% was Automobiles).
Sales Analysis
During the year ended March of 2005, sales at Toyota Motor were ¥18.55 trillion (US$159.54 billion). This is an increase of 7.3% versus 2004, when the company 's sales were ¥17.29 trillion. This was the fifth consecutive year of sales increases at Toyota Motor (and since 2000, sales have increased a total of 44%).
Sales of Other saw an increase that was more than double the company 's growth rate: sales were up 67.5% in 2005, from ¥614.93
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