Toyota Kenya
Toyota Kenya Limited is an automobile dealer based in Nairobi , Kenya . The company was founded in January 2012 as the successor company to Toyota East Africa Limited .
history
Toyota East Africa Limited had vehicles manufactured by the Associated Vehicle Assemblers since 1977 . The vehicles assembled included the Toyota Land Cruiser and the Toyota Hilux .
In January 2012 the company was replaced by Toyota Kenya Limited .
In 2013, AVA started assembling Hino trucks . Toyota had invested 500 million KES (around 5 million EUR) for this.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Toyota assembly and parts plants , on Toyoland.com.
- ↑ David Herbling: Toyota drops bid to buy AVA , in: Business Daily of February 10, 2013.
- ↑ Gitonga Maret: Toyota Kenya opens Sh500m bus assembly plant in Mombasa , in: Business Daily from February 19, 2013.