Financial Risk Management at Toyota

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Case Code : FINA012
Case Length : 16 Pages
Period : 2004
Pub. Date : 2004
Teaching Note :Not Available
Organization : Toyota
Industry : Auto and Ancillaries
Countries : Japan

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Sakichi Toyoda, born in 1868, founded Toyota. He showed little interest in the family's carpentry business. Instead, Toyoda concentrated on improving the handloom machinery used in textile factories. These efforts led to the Toyoda Automatic Loom.

In 1926, Sakichi founded Toyoda Automatic Loom Works (TALW) to make looms. He entrusted his son Kiichiro with the task of using the profits from the textile machinery business to develop a motor car. In 1933, Kiichiro opened an auto department within the loom works and began copying US engine designs.

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After Sakichi died in 1930, Kiichiro faced stiff competition from Ford and General Motors, who had set up their manufacturing units in Japan. Family members including brother Risaburo showed little interest in Kiichiro's plans. In spite of these difficulties, the articles of association of the company were amended in 1933 to permit automobile manufacturing...

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