Toyota Corporation : The Biggest Car Industry Of The World Of Automotive Industry

Toyota Company was established in the year 1937. Its main activities are the production of vehicles and sales. With its headquarters based in Japan, Toyota has employed over three hundred thousand employees. Toyota Company belongs to the motor vehicle industry where competition is tight even though Toyota is leading on the number of vehicles being sold on a daily basis. Toyota operates in 51 countries worldwide.

Thus, Friesen should identify the specific processes that need to be improved. He should then gather more information regarding these problems to ultimately figure out gaps between the standards and the current outputs.

Since it’s now 2016, these teenagers are getting their driver’s licenses. They studied how many teenagers talk about the automotive world. They found that people between the ages of 13 and 17 seem to talk less about automobiles than generations before them. They found a 27% decrease in conversations about automobiles in these teenagers. However, people who are between the ages of 18 and 29 seem to have an increase in conversations held talking about automobiles. It’s been increased by 18%. People who are in their 30’s show in increase in automotive conversations by 17%. People in their 40’s show an increase in conversations by 10%. However, they found that people in their 50’s show no increase or decrease in the automotive conversations they have. This is an interesting study because you often see younger people with the fuel efficient and small vehicles. On the opposite, you see older people with larger and powerful vehicles. It almost seems as if the older you get, the more interested you will be in automobiles. Perhaps this is due to your income level increasing? There is even more evidence of younger people choosing smaller vehicles than larger vehicles. The conversations that the young people have about automobiles actually consists of car brands such as Subaru, Audi, and Hyundai. Subaru leads with 89% most appealing . If you have seen

Another vehicle that I believe is marketed based on the age of potential customers is Tru 140S. This is Chevrolet. The marketing is similar to that of Scion at the inception because Chevrolet worked really hard at understanding what the young segment required. Another similarity between the Scion and Tru 140S is that both are targeted at the young segment. The third similarity between Scion and Tru 140S is that both are priced below $20,000.

Although Toyota invented this new hybrid vehicle more than ten years ago, it did not offer the car to the USA consumers immediately. The main reason was that Toyota was aware of the new technology challenges. While Toyota was on the market research and new product development, other companies were focusing on merger and acquisition. Brand recognition, technology changes and improvement take several years to finish and Toyota wanted to launch a product which has cleared all the possible obstacles such as space, efficiency, speed, safety, weight which can meet all consumers ' expectations.

In 2003, Toyota Motor Company decided to open a new branch directly aimed towards the younger generation. Toyota decided to name the company Scion and build vehicles that would be desirable to 18-30 year old. What seemed to be a great idea at the time did not last longer than 15 years before it was shut down and dissolved back into its big brother company, Toyota. Various articles were released, each presenting a different spin on the story. However, it was obvious that Scion created a clear goal, yet failed to form a structured business plan.

Toyota’s customer driven marketing strategy is largely responsible for its success in the hybrid car market. Forward thinking and focus on the societal and marketing concepts allowed for the company to deliver superior customer value to its customers. Management’s focus on the world’s dependence on gasoline and perceived customer value proved to be useful

Cars have been an essential part of living for some time now. Ever since mass-production allowed for the wide-spread distribution of cars, they have been paramount to everything from our economy to our daily commute. Globalization along with the growing market caused competition among manufacturers, and so manufacturers had to find ways to appeal to the new competitive consumer market. Automotive advertising started to take a new form and targeted peoples particular interests, emotions, and desires instead of being strictly informative or utilitarian. Even the car themselves had to change along with the decades to provide luxuries and compete with the market. Although many car manufactures took steps in the right direction, one great example of this changing market is the 1955 Ford Thunderbird.

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

GM has developed an Enterprise Demand Sensing Research Program to investigate methodologies and drive a collaborative decision-making framework. The program aims to improve the decision-making of the enterprise in procurement, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and logistics (Truss, Wu, Saroop & Sehgal, 2006). To enhance enabling technologies, GM places considerable importance on internal communication. GM launched some major efforts to communicate throughout the organization. These included roundtable discussion groups, and the training of managers

Accordance of the “Guiding Principles” has summarized the philosophy and the vision of Toyota’s wants to be in term of commitment to contribute to harmonious and sustainable development of society and the earth through its automobiles. Mission of Toyota is to manufacture cars that meet the customer needs in constantly. (http://www.toyota.co.jp/en/ir/library/annual/pdf/2007/ar07_e.pdf -19th December2007) The vision & Mission that settled had created good reputation image of Toyota as environmental friendly, technological innovation and social contribution automobile company which Toyota has created. Therefore, the consumers of automobile market are concerning about green environments and social responsibility issues will encourage choosing Toyota as one of their main vehicles option.

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.

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The organization being covered in this paper is the Toyota Motor Company Inc. Kiichiro Toyoda, who was the son of Sakichi Toyota, was the founder of Toyota. It was in 1933 when Toyota started as a division of Toyota Automatic Loom Works. While Toyota was under Kiichiro, the main focus was the production of automobiles. Toyota Automatic Loom Works began research that lead to the development of automobile production with the aim of increasing the sale of domestic cars. It happened because Toyota and his peers received encouragement from the Japanese government.

Thus far, our product strategy of successively expanding our model range, from smaller cars to luxury sedans, full-sized pickup trucks, large SUVs, and crossover vehicles has proved successful. In a bid to further extend our customer base, we have established the Scion marketing group, which will develop a range of vehicles targeting young, first-time car buyers. With respect to environmental issues, Toyota’s hybrid automobile Prius, which was introduced to the North American market in 2000, has been extremely well received and development is under way to launch our next-generation hybrid car. The Company intends to