Toyota Motor Corporation (NYSE, Stock Symbol [TM]) is engaged in the design, manufacture, assembly and sale of passenger cars, recreational and sport-utility vehicles (SUVs), minivans, trucks and related parts and accessories worldwide. Toyota provides retail and wholesale financing, retail leasing and certain other financial services to its dealers and their customers related to vehicles manufactured by the Company. The major portions of Toyota's operations on a worldwide basis are derived from the automotive and financial services business segments.

The Company also has an all other segment, which includes its non-automotive business activities. Toyota's other operations are its information technology (IT)-related businesses and pre-fabricated housing. The Company operates through 554 consolidated subsidiaries and 228 affiliated companies. During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2004 (fiscal 2004), Toyota sold 6.71 million vehicl es. Toyota is the world's third largest manufacturer of automobiles in unit sales and in net sales. It is by far the largest Japanese automotive manufacturer, producing more than 5.5 million vehicles per year. TM companies employ more than 31,000 in the United States, and our Lexus and Toyota dealers and suppliers employ an additional 160,000 persons. Toyota's investments in the United States amount to $12 billion

The Toyota Motor Co. Ltd was first established in 1937 as a spin-off from Toyoda Automatic Loom Works, one of the world's leading manufacturers of weaving machinery. The Toyoda Automatic Loom Works was then headed by Japan's "King of Inventors" Sakichi Toyoda. The patent rights to one of his machines had been sold and provided the seed-money for the development and test-building of Toyota's first automobiles.

Automotive brands include:

Toyota, SCION and Lexus

Lexus is a division of Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary of Toyota. Established in the early 1980s and launched in 1989, the Lexus marque soon became associated with quality, luxury and superior customer satisfaction. The brand reputation grew quickly until, barely a dozen years after its founding, Lexus became America's best-selling line of luxury motor vehicles.

In 1989, Lexus began building vehicles in Japan. Its Canadian plant, the first plant outside of Japan, opened in September 2003, located in the province of Ontario, is home to the first Lexus manufacturing plant in North America. It produces the RX luxury sport utility vehicle. Currently, Lexus has four facilities operating in Japan.

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Toyota Motor Corporation is one of the world's leading automakers, offering a full range of models, from minivehicles to large trucks. Global sales of its Toyota and Lexus brands, combined with those of Daihatsu and Hino, totaled 6.78 million units in CY2003*. Besides its own 12 plants and 11 manufacturing subsidiaries and affiliates in Japan, Toyota has 51 manufacturing companies in 26 countries/locations, which produce Lexus- and Toyota-brand vehicles and components. As of March 2004, Toyota employs 264,000 people worldwide (on a consolidated basis), and markets vehicles in more than 140 countries. Automotive business, including sales finance, accounts for more than 90% of the company's total sales, which came to a consolidated ¥17.29 trillion in the fiscal year to March 2004. Diversified operations include telecommunications, prefabricated housing and leisure boats.

Subsidiaries

Toyota Motor North America, Inc.
  9 W. 57th St., Ste. 4900
  New York, NY 10019-2701
  Phone: 212-223-0303  Fax: 212-759-7670
A wholly-owned subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation, Toyota Motor North America is the holding company for Toyota's manufacturing, financing, sales, and marketing operations in Canada, Mexico, and the US.

Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.
  19001 S. Western Ave.
  Torrance, CA 90509
  Phone: 310-468-4000  Fax: 310-468-7800
  www.toyota.com
Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., is the US sales unit for Toyota Motor, Most of the Toyotas sold in the US also are made there, and Toyota employs more than 20,000 Americans involved in the manufacture, research, financing, and sales of its cars, light trucks, and sport utility vehicles. The company is planning to recapture its share of the youth market with the 2002 launch of the Matrix -- a crossover hatchback. Sales are through 1,200 dealerships throughout the US

SCION
19001 S. Western Ave
Mail Stop WC12
Torrance, CA 90509
1.866.70.SCION

Toyota Financial Services Corporation
  19001 S. Western Ave
  Torrance, CA 90509
  Phone: 310-468-1310    Fax: 310-468-7829
  www.toyotafinancial.com
Toyota Financial Services is the finance and insurance umbrella for the giant Japanese auto maker Toyota. Through Toyota Motor Credit Corporation, it offers auto financing and leasing options to Toyota and Lexus buyers. Toyota Motor Insurance Services offers credit insurance, extended service contracts, and other vehicle protection plans. Toyota Financial Services also provides wholesale financing to Toyota and Lexus dealers, as well as to Toyota's industrial equipment and marine sports dealers.

Toyota Motor Credit Corporation
  19001 S. Western Ave.
  Torrance, CA 90509
  Phone: 310-468-1310    Fax: 310-468-7800
Toyota Motor Credit Corporation is the US financing arm of Toyota Financial Services, a subsidiary of Toyota Motor. It provides retail leasing, retail and wholesale financing, and other financial services to Toyota and Lexus dealers, as well as Toyota industrial equipment dealers and their customers. The company has three regional and more than 30 branch offices across the US, as well as branch offices in Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Venezuela. Toyota Motor Credit also holds minority stakes in Toyota financing operations in Brazil and Argentina. The company's subsidiaries sell insurance, acquire and securitize lease and financing receivables, and provide retail and wholesale lease financing

Toyota Motor Manufacturing North America
  25 Atlantic Ave.
  Erlanger, KY 41018
  Phone: 859-746-4000    Fax: 859-746-4190
Toyota Motor Manufacturing North America (TMMNA) oversees the various North American manufacturing operations of Toyota Motor Corporation. US plants are located in Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky, Texas, and West Virginia. The company also has two plants in Canada and a parts manufacturing facility in Mexico.

Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky, Inc.
  1001 Cherry Blossom Way
  Georgetown, KY 40324
  Phone: 859-746-4000  Fax: 859-746-4001
  www.toyotageorgetown.com
Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky (TMMK) manufactures the Toyota Camry, Avalon, and Camry Solara for the North American market. Other products include 4 cylinder and V6 engines, and powertrain components. Production of the Sienna minivan is being moved to Toyota's plant in Indiana

Toyota Material Handling, USA, Inc.
  19001 S Western Ave.
  Torrance, CA 90501-1106
  Phone: 310-618-8600  Fax: 310-781-2996
  www.toyotaforklift.com
The company, a part of the Japan-based Toyota Group, is the US distributor for forklifts bearing the Toyota name. In addition to its electric, gasoline, and liquefied propane gas (LPG) forklifts, TMHU also distributes electric and manual pallet trucks, electric order pickers, maintenance and repair parts, and related accessories (backup alarms, lights, and mirrors). The majority of TMHU's products are assembled at its Indiana-based Toyota Industrial Equipment facility.

Daihatsu Motor Co., Ltd.
  1-1, Daihatsu-cho
  Ikeda, Osaka 563-8651, Japan
  Phone: +81-727-51-8811   Fax: +81-727-53-6880
  www.daihatsu.co.jp
Daihatsu Motor specializes in small, inexpensive passenger cars (including electric models) that it sells worldwide. The company makes nearly 700,000 Daihatsu cars per year, as well as about 100,000 Toyotas, which it assembles on a consignment basis. It also supplies about 20,000 OEM cars per year for Toyota (including the Cami and Duet models) based on Daihatsu models. The company, which was formed in 1907, has four factories in Japan and exports to more than 140 countries. Toyota (#1 automaker in Japan) owns a controlling 51% stake in Daihatsu.
Company Type Public (Exchange: Tokyo)
Fiscal Year-End March
2003 Sales (mil.) $8,090.1
1-Year Sales Growth 13.7%
2003 Net Income (mil.) $123.3
1-Year Net Income Growth 75.7%
2003 Employees 27,566
1-Year Employee Growth 6.8%

New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc.
  45500 Fremont Blvd.
  Fremont, CA 94538
  Phone: 510-498-5500    Fax: 510-770-4116
New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. (NUMMI), a 50-50 joint venture between General Motors (GM) and Toyota. NUMMI makes Tacoma pickup trucks and Corolla sedans for Toyota. The Tacoma is made only at the NUMMI plant in Fremont, California. The company also makes GM's Pontiac division's Vibe sport wagon. NUMMI can produce 220,000 cars and 150,000 pickups a year. Together GM and Toyota are researching alternative-fuel vehicles to meet strict emissions requirements.

T A B C, Inc.
  6375 N. Paramount Blvd
  Long Beach, CA 90805-3301
  Phone: 562-428-3604  Fax: 562-428-3604
  www.toyotasupplier.com/about/tabc.asp
T A B C, Inc., a subsidiary of Toyota Motor, makes body components for Toyota vehicles assembled in North America. Products include truck beds for the Tacoma pickup, and stamped parts for the Corolla, Matrix, and Pontiac Vibe (a model made jointly with General Motors). Other components made by T A B C include catalytic converters and coated substrates.

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