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For decades, the large truck market has been the domain of U.S. automakers, but in recent years the Toyota Tundra has managed to carve out its own niche. Among the top reasons for this success is the durability and dependability this truck and all Toyota vehicles are well-known for. For the 2016 model year, the Tundra receives an upgraded Entune infotainment system, an all-new off-road package available in the 1794 Edition and an optional larger capacity fuel tank. This year more trim levels offer rear cross-traffic and blind spot monitoring for added safety.

On the Toyota website, features and specifications of the pickup truck are presented and compared with other companies competing vehicles to show that the Tundra has superior power, reliability, safety, and utility.  For example, when the Tundra is compared to the Chevrolet equivalent; towing capacity and torque of the Toyota are ranked higher than that of the Chevrolet.  By using statistics and facts about the Tundra, Toyota further solidifies the claim of a sturdy and dependable truck. This method is beneficial in advertising because giving facts is a more tangible and convincing to a consumer who is not as easily influenced by appeals to

1. Many U.S. firms do exceedingly well in the global arena. Which of the following organizations is considered to be the U.S. leader with global revenues approximated at $285 billion annually? (Points: 1)

Toyota Motor Corporation, affiliated with Japan’s Mitsui Chaebol, has gradually rank the NO.1 as an auto maker since 2008, whose brands include Lexus, Toyota, and other lower-end models. However, it’s recalling fact include ruins its reputation to a certain degree. On August 24, 2009, Toyota’s two joint ventures in China, Guangzhou Toyota and Faw-Toyota announced that set by its defects of its parts, since August 25, they would recall a large number of vehicles up to 688.314, including Camry, Yaris, Vios and Corolla car. In fact, continuous recall events of Toyota over years has greatly touched consumers never around the world, especially after the occurrence of recalling Lexus, a pride of Toyota, the myths about quality of Toyota has been widely questioned, What’s worse in the first 10 months of 2009, Toyota had recalled its vehicles for nine times worldwide, involving more than 6.25 million ones. Among 10000 netizens participating an online survey “Whether you will still buy Toyota motor”, nearly 73% respondents voiced they would not buy it. What’s more, a November issue of Automotive News predicted “more misery” for Toyota as “sales slip, floods delay, shoppers

With the recent Toyota recall of a well-known model due to quality problems, the risky shift phenomena were partly responsible for the huge outcry for and against Toyota. There were the ambassadors who claimed that Toyota did the right thing by taking in and refitting the quality-problem parts; and then there were the opposing realists who claimed that Toyota has lost their touch, as they always claimed quality and reliability, and were in the first instance trying to cover up and lie about the defect on the model. Therefore it is safe to assume that consumers behaviour were affected by

Toyota Motor Corporation is an international car manufacturer that is based out of Toyota, Japan. Toyota started vehicle production in 1933 with the company being a division of Toyoda Automatic Loom Works devoted to the production of automobiles under the direction of the founder's son, Kiichiro Toyoda. Throughout the early years of Toyota, they were well known for making highly desirable vehicles that were efficient and reliable. However, in recent years Toyota has been plagued with recalls for various reasons. Many of these recalls are safety related issues that have tainted to company’s sterling reputation. For instance, in January 2010, Toyota suspended sales of eight recalled vehicle models to fix accelerator pedals with mechanical problems that could cause them to become stuck. In December 2012, Toyota announced an agreement worth more than $1 billion to settle a lawsuit involving unintended acceleration in some of its vehicles (Wikipedia, 2017). Business experts believed that it was not necessarily the recall that damaged Toyota’s reputation, but rather the way that the recalls were handled. Many individuals believe that Toyota executives were insincere in their apologies, and that they did very poorly at explaining the recalls and what the course of correction was for the problems (Kaufman, 2010). Toyota’s CEO, Akio Toyoda, stated in an inter interview that the company was growing to quickly and was putting growth-related goals above quality concerns

Once again in 2009, Toyota was back in the limelight and at the center of a government investigation and consumer driven outrage over their refusal to admit they had put out defective accelerators in their vehicles. They did try to react somewhat more proactively as compared to their engine sludge recall by issuing a letter to consumers extending warranties and accepting to pay for any costs incurred from engine damage, however, they still failed to fully accept blame (Greto, Schotter, & Teagarden, 2010). More importantly, at this point, Toyotas leaders in Japan were not fundamentally focused on the larger issue at hand which was their global network of manufacturing plants had become disjointed and their culture of perfect quality had been lost in many of their products and they were now paying a heavy price because of this critical oversight in their pursuit of rapid market expansion and radical reductions imposed on managers to find manufacturing cost cutting measures (Greto, Schotter, & Teagarden, 2010).

Abstract Purpose: the main purpose of this study is to find out about the recalls of Toyota vehicles which lead to the death of some innocent lives. The recall was due to unintended acceleration. Toyota ultimately recalled millions of its cars for floor mat issues, brake problems and "sticky" gas pedals. Methodology: Data was collected online, by the help of some selected search engines. Information was collected from Toyota’s national website as well as other private sites. Findings/results: Most organization should seek for customers or consumer’s satisfaction rather than targeting of making high profit. Arrogance and choosing to ignore quality warnings when

Bad news has come from companies in different forms over the years, employee layoffs, unexpected financial outcomes, crises both internal and external, and natural disasters to name a few (French, S. L., & Holden, T. Q., 2012). For Toyota it came in 2010, with 4,872,583 vehicles recalled, accounting for 29.7% of all vehicles recalled that year (Mezey, A., Hamilton, S., Kuwahara, K., & Sandlin, C., 2013). The failure on the company’s part was in how the recalls were handled, the lack of internal and external communication, as well as the lack of acceptance of responsibility both played substantial roles in the public’s view of the company.

STORY’s core customer value is status, achieved through the product’s unique and groundbreaking luxurious design. Beyond this core value of status, the actual product must be consistent with the modern, luxury aspect of the clock. The clock features a design which simultaneously combines high-end design with levitating technology, supporting the goal of status for customers. The product is made from quality materials, including stained ash and walnut. The product arrives at the customer’s door in a sleek, luxury package that ensures customers experience quality before they even unbox the product.

The original formula for Red Bull was developed in 1964; however, the Red Bull company was not founded until 1984 after a merger between Dietrich Mateschitz, marketing guru, and Chaleo Yoovidhya, the owner of the Red Bull formula. Categorized as an energy drink, Red Bull was initially designed to “treat jet lag and boost energy for truck drivers” (Hollensen, 2012). In today's era, Red Bull is commonly used as an energy drink; like coffee, and as a mixer in alcoholic drinks, like Red Bull Wings and the Jägerbomb. This aligns with the company's focus on the younger generations of partygoers and post-secondary students.

Toyota has long been regarded as the pinnacle of Japanese innovation, manufacturing quality and an industrial pioneer (Yuanyuan Feng, 2010). In 2009 Toyota faced a lager scale crisis that was rulled to be the result of “malfunctioning floor mats”. This lead to mass recalls on many of their vehicles and the loss of thousands of dollars due to recall costs and legal bills. After more incidents arose it was found that the actual cause of the incidents was malfunctioning gas pedals and the original floor-pan design. In the time of crisis Toyota was blamed for misreading and mishandling the situation resulting in major losses both financially and in their reputation to buyers.

Toyota is a key player in global automotive market. Its structure constitutes if various production plants in different locations and a very strong branding which helps it capture a major market share. Like other enterprises, Toyota has several strengths and weakness which makes it what it is now. Toyota heavily invests in Research and development which helps it come up reputable product line which is spread out throughout the world because of its strengthening global distribution network however its recent product recalling, loose grip in key geographic areas and wrong allocation of resources shows that even a strong brand like Toyota has its weaknesses.

Crisis is often a very fearful problem for organization around the world. As brand building takes up a very long period, destroying a brand on the other hand only require a blink of an eye. However, each and every organization will have their own module or particular ways to prevent their brand to have negative image in customers’ perception. But because of the unknown future, crisis might arise from nowhere and struck the organization with no mercy and brings the organization to an ending point. Crisis can be devastating as the effect of the crisis its own can sometimes be very hard to calculate as there might be many parties involved.

2. Then we need to understand the customers with whom we have been successful and why.