7203)‚ commonly known simply as Toyota‚ is a multinational corporation headquartered in Japan. At its peak‚ Toyota employed approximately 320‚000 people worldwide. It is the world’s largest automobile maker by sales. 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
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largest automaker of automobiles‚ trucks‚ buses‚ robots‚ and providing financial services. Its founder is Kiichiro Toyoda‚ born in 1894‚ and the son of Sakichi Toyoda‚ who became popular as the inventor of the automatic loom. Kiichiro inherited the spirit of research and creation from his father‚ and devoted his entire life to the manufacture of cars. After many years of hard work‚ Kiichiro finally succeeded in his completion of the A1 prototype vehicle in 1935‚ which marked the beginning of the history
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Toyota was started in 1933 as a division of Toyoda Automatic Loom Works devoted to the production of automobiles under the direction of the founder’s son‚ Kiichiro Toyoda. Its first vehicles were the A1 passenger car and the G1 in 1935. The Toyota Motor Co. was established as an independent company in 1937. In 2008‚ Toyota’s sales surpassed General Motors‚ making Toyota number one in the world. In 1924‚ Sakichi Toyoda invented the Toyoda Model G Automatic Loom. The principle of Jidoka‚ which means
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Toyota story begins in the late 19th century‚ when Sakichi Toyoda invented Japan’s first power loom‚ which was to revolutionize the country’s textile industry. In January 1918‚ Sakichi founded the Toyoda Spinning & Weaving Company‚ and with the help of his son‚ Kiichiro Toyoda‚ he fulfilled his lifelong dream of building an automatic loom in 1924. Two years later‚ he established Toyoda Automatic Loom Works. Like his father‚ Kiichiro was an innovator‚ and during his visits to Europe and the U
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VALUE CHAIN AND COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE OF PT.TOYOTA (BASED ON THE THEORY M. Porter) COMPANY PROFILE * PT Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indonesia * Headquarters Jl. Yos Sudarso‚ Sunter II‚ Jakarta 14330‚Tel (021) 6515551 (hunting)‚Fax (021) 6515360 Established: July 15‚ 2003 * Paid-in Capital: Rp. 400 000 000 000 * Shareholders: PT. Astra International Tbk (51%) & Toyota Motor Corporation (49%) * Toyota Dealer Network 5 Primary Dealer: * PT Astra International‚
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Marketing Assignment 2012 Introduction Honda Motors Company‚ Limited (本田技研工業株式会社)‚ is a Japanese corporation that was known for being the largest and most popular motorcycle manufacturer in the year 1958. (Gardinar‚ n.d.) Few years after the release of Honda’s all time loved Super Cub motorcycle line‚ Loh Boon Siew‚ the founder of Boon Siew Honda‚ received the distributorship for Honda motorcycles. As a result of close ties with Mr Honda‚ Loh too‚ was able to gain hold of a distributorship for
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has been one of the most successful companies all over the world. Toyota’s company success in leading the Japan’s economy to be NO.1 in Asia‚ beside that Toyota is a major multinational car manufacturer headquartered in Japan. It was built by Kiichiro Toyoda in 1937. Nowadays this factory is the first factory for cars in the world. And what make Toyota’s so special that it manufactured vehicles with high quality and simplicity in use‚ beside the less costly compared with the other companies‚ which
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process in a continuous flow. TPS HISTORY: Sakichi Toyoda founded the Toyoda Spinning and Weaving Company in 1918. He developed the first steam-powered loom that could detect a broken thread and stop itself automatically. This innovation led to the wider principle of jidoka‚ or automation with a human touch – later to become one of the two pillars of TPS. Some years later in 1937‚ Sakichi’s son Kiichiro founded the Toyota Motor Corporation. Kiichiro took his father’s concept of jidoka and developed
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Toyota is one of the best car selling companies in the world. TMC (Toyota Motor Corporation) was established in Tokyo‚ Japan. The company was founded in the year 1937 by a successful businessman - Mr. Kiichiro Toyoda. The company is a corporation in the Toyota City in Tokyo. Some say that the company is not one of the best companies but the only best and the largest motor making company in the world. Today‚ there are more than 317‚000 people working in this company as its dedicated employees. The
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interaction with suppliers and customers. The system is a major precursor of the more generic "lean manufacturing." Taiichi Ohno‚ Shigeo Shingo and Eiji Toyoda developed the system between 1948 and 1975. Originally called "just-in-time production‚" it builds on the approach created by the founder of Toyota‚ Sakichi Toyoda‚ his son Kiichiro Toyoda‚ and the engineer Taiichi Ohno. This system‚ more than any other aspect of the company‚ is responsible for having made Toyota the company it is today. Toyota
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