Toyota Motor Corporation in 2003
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Case Details:
Case Code : BSTA053
Case Length : 24 Pages
Period : 2004
Organization : Toyota Motor Corporation
Pub Date : 2004
Teaching Note :Not Available
Countries : Japan
Industry : Automobile
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Introduction
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Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota), Japan's largest and the
world's fourth-largest automobile manufacturer offered well-known car models
like Camry, Corona, Corolla, and Lexus. Though a late entrant, compared to
General Motors and Ford, Toyota had become one of the strongest players in the
automobile industry. In an industry, generally considered to be mature in terms
of technology, Toyota had continued to set new benchmarks for providing value to
customers more effectively than competitors. Toyota had also redefined the rules
of the game in various areas - product development, manufacturing, vendor
management and human resources management. A recent Business Week1
issue had Toyota on the cover with the caption "Can anything stop Toyota?"
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History
Early History
Sakichi Toyoda, born in 1868, founded Toyota. He showed little interest in the family's carpentry business. Instead, Toyoda concentrated on improving the handloom machinery used in textile factories. These efforts led to the Toyoda Automatic Loom.
In 1926, Sakichi founded Toyoda Automatic Loom Works (TALW) to make looms. He entrusted his son Kiichiro with the task of using the profits from the textile machinery business to develop a motor car. In 1933, Kiichiro opened an auto department within the loom works and began copying US engine designs.
After Sakichi died in 1930, Kiichiro faced stiff competition from Ford and General Motors, who had set up their manufacturing units in Japan. Family members including brother Risaburo showed little interest in Kiichiro's plans. In spite of these difficulties, the articles of association of the company were amended in 1933 to permit automobile manufacturing...
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