Akio Toyoda

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Akio Toyoda ( Japanese 豊 田 章 男 , Toyoda Akio ; * May 3, 1956 in Nagoya ) is the Chief Executive Officer ( daihyō-torishimariyaku -shachō , German "executive director and president") of the Japanese automobile company Toyota ( Toyota Jidōsha KK ).

He is the eldest son of Shōichirō Toyoda and grandson of the Toyota company founder Kiichirō Toyoda . He is the first Toyoda to have been the company's managing director since 1995 and, at the age of 53, he is the youngest Toyota boss to date.

Akio Toyoda was appointed Toyota’s new CEO in July 2009 and is expected to bring the world's largest automaker back into the black. Due to the global economic crisis, Toyota suffered its first operating loss in company history in 2008.

In the 1990s, Toyoda and a few employees built the first Gazoo terminal as a presentation platform for used Toyota vehicles. From this, the Gazoo.com portal developed in a few years and became one of the most popular Japanese cybermalls . In 2001 the portal already had over a million registered members and more than 3200 public terminals with which online purchases could be made.

Toyoda is an avid motorsport fan who campaigned for the development of sports models such as the Lexus IS-F and Lexus LF-A within the group. He took part in the ADAC 24-hour race at the Nürburgring three times under the pseudonym "Morizo ​​Kinoshita" . In 2009 he appeared in the newly developed LF-A prototype No. 14, with which he finished 87th (4th place in his class).

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Auto Industry Blog about Akio Toyoda ( Memento of the original from May 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / autoindustrie.blogspot.com
  2. ↑ handelsblatt.com
  3. ↑ nzz.ch: Toyota takes over
  4. ↑ Akio Toyoda . Businessweek, July 2, 2001
  5. ↑ Toyota boss starts in the Lexus LF-A . sport auto, May 22, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Toyoda, Akio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 豊 田 章 男 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Nagoya