Toyota
Japanese vehicle manufacturer headquartered in Toyota City, Aichi, selling Toyota and Lexus vehicles. It reported sales revenues of ¥50.7 trillion for the year to March 2026.
Industry: Automotive manufacturing | Location: Toyota City, Japan | Founded: 1937
About Toyota
Toyota Motor Corporation is a Japanese vehicle maker with its head office in Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture. Its company overview gives motor vehicle production and sales as its main business and reports capital of ¥635 billion and 73,133 employees, or 390,927 on a consolidated basis, as of 31 March 2026. Other businesses include Toyota Financial Services, which offers auto loans and leasing in more than 35 countries and regions, Toyota Housing and Toyota Marine.
The company dates its founding to 28 August 1937. Its history page says Toyota Motor Sales was established in the 1950s, and that sales and manufacturing were merged into Toyota Motor Corporation in the 1980s, when full-scale overseas production began. Akio Toyoda is chairman and Kenta Kon president, with Koji Sato as vice chairman and Hiroki Nakajima and Yoichi Miyazaki as executive vice presidents, according to the executives page updated in June 2026.
Toyota sells vehicles under the Toyota and Lexus brands. In the year to March 2026 it sold 10.477 million Toyota and Lexus vehicles at retail, 48.1 percent of them electrified, including 4.62 million hybrids and 243,000 battery electric vehicles. Its group page lists Daihatsu, Toyota Industries, Denso, Aisin and Toyota Tsusho, and Woven by Toyota, established in April 2023.
Toyota Industries tendered its shares in a Toyota tender offer, with settlement beginning on 25 May 2026, and Toyota retired 1.2 billion treasury shares by 30 June 2026. TechScoop reported in August 2026 that Woven Capital, which it describes as Toyota's growth fund, co-led Moove's $250 million Series C round.
For the year ended 31 March 2026, Toyota reported sales revenues of ¥50,684.9 billion, operating income of ¥3,766.2 billion and net income attributable to the company of ¥3,848.0 billion, with consolidated vehicle sales of 9.595 million. Its shares are listed in Tokyo and Nagoya under code 7203.
In its 8 May 2026 results presentation Toyota forecast sales revenues of ¥51 trillion and operating and net income of ¥3 trillion each for the year to March 2027, and said it was unlikely to absorb a newly added impact from the Middle East.
Leadership
- Akio Toyoda, Chairman of the Board (Representative Director)
- Kenta Kon, President, Member of the Board (Representative Director)
- Koji Sato, Vice Chairman
- Hiroki Nakajima, Executive Vice President, Member of the Board (Representative Director)
- Yoichi Miyazaki, Executive Vice President, Member of the Board (Representative Director)