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What led to the downfall of the Toyota brand-name
worldwide?
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Ryusuke Tashiro
Outline
● What is Toyota?
● History
● The cause of downfall
● Conclusion
What is Toyota?
It is a Japanese car company. This company used to be the biggest company all over the world. This company was founded by Sakichi
Toyoda.
The context of work
● Car
● House
● ITS
● Marine
● Financial Activity
● Biotechnology
History
● 1867 Toyoda Sakichi was born
● 1924 Automatic loom was developed
● 1933 Toyota set up the car work in their company.
● 1937 Toyota car engineering company was founded
● 1957 Toyota advanced into America
● 1966 Corolla was developed
History
● 1975 They expand their work(house)
● 1982 Toyota car company was founded
● 1997 Prius was developed
● 2008 The number of sold Prius broke one million
The cause of downfall
● Recall problem is one of the cause of downfall
● There were unreasonable overtime work and Lehman's fall
My Opinion
Business by low cost is very important, but extreme price reduction bring people in threaten. Also, I think companies must not employee disposable worker.
Conclusion
● Occasionally, extreme competition bring people in threaten.
● Careful check is very important.
Reference
● http://toyota.jp/
● http://kenri.labornetjp.org/node/151
● http://jp.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idJPnTK050686220110116