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- In August 1957, Managing Director Seishi Kato and two others from Toyota Motor Sales Co., Ltd. traveled to the United States as an advance team for exporting Toyota vehicles to the U.S. and began the work of establishing a sales company.
Toyota Motor Sales, USA's first sales administrator James F. McGraw bluntly told his new Japanese supervisors after joining the company in 1959: "'Toy' sounds like a toy and toys break". [8] At the time, "yota" and "yoda" did not have any significant semantic meaning in English.
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Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc. (TMS, also known as Toyota USA) is the North American Toyota sales, marketing, and distribution subsidiary devoted to the United States market. Founded in 1957 in California, TMS currently employs more than 6,500 people.
6 days ago · In 1933 Toyoda Kiichiro founded what later became the Toyota Motor Corporation as a division of the Toyoda Automatic Loom Works, Ltd. (later Toyota Industries Corporation, now a subsidiary), a Japanese manufacturer founded by his father, Toyoda Sakichi.
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In August 1957, Managing Director Seishi Kato and two others from Toyota Motor Sales Co., Ltd. traveled to the United States as an advance team for exporting Toyota vehicles to the U.S. and began the work of establishing a sales company.
Sales begin, totaling 288 vehicles – 287 Toyopet Crown sedans and one Land Cruiser. Enthusiasm turned to gloom when the American market found the Toyopet, underpowered and overpriced. Toyota Motor Distributors is founded as the distribution and marketing arm of Toyota Motor Sales.
Oct 31, 2007 · Today, after a two-month look-see of the American car market by a three-man team from Japan, auto manufacturer Toyota took the plunge, founding Toyota Motor Sales USA and installing Shotaro...
Shotaro Kamiya was appointed president and the company head office was located in the Nagoya Office of Toyota Motor Co., Ltd.-where the former sales department had been-at 221 Sasashima 1-chome, Nakamura-ku, Nagoya City.
