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...Toyoda and Renault declined to comment. Nada could not be reached for comment....
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...Mr Toyoda declined to comment....
...Nissan’s nomination committee — chaired by Masakazu Toyoda, a former senior official at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, and also counting Renault chair Jean-Dominique Senard as a member — eventually...
...than during the Lehman crisis, but because we will be able to remain profitable, we can continue to make investments for the future” in areas including self-driving technology and smart cities, said Akio Toyoda...
...Automotive suppliers Futuris and Toyoda Gosei in Adelaide closed their local operations, affecting several hundred jobs, but many others diversified into other sectors....
...“His diverse experience makes him an appropriate leader for difficult times like now,” Mr Toyoda said at a news conference in Yokohama....
...Talks over changing the ownership structure, however, continued, with Mr Senard and Mr Toyoda communicating amid the havoc via their lawyers....
...Its nomination committee has created a shortlist of more than 10 candidates, including current executives, officials from Renault, women and non-Japanese candidates, according to Masakazu Toyoda, who leads...
...In October, the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association, which is led by Toyota chief executive Akio Toyoda, warned the UK government to avoid a no-deal Brexit “at all costs”....
...In Japan he also met with Akio Toyoda, the chief executive of Toyota....
...At Toyota, chief executive Akio Toyoda has pushed for a huge cost-cutting programme that draws on the group’s vaunted kaizen philosophy and relentless elimination of waste....
...succession question Toyota While Japanese rules state that senior executives must step down when they reach 65, Toyota is not technically governed by such rules when it comes to its 61-year-old president Akio Toyoda...
...At Toyota, the appointment as chief executive of Akio Toyoda, grandson of the company’s founder, provided the moral legitimacy to break long-held taboos and adapt Japan’s largest carmaker to the driverless...
...Co-operating with several people on several different products is good for us,” he said....
...Toyota executives have pledged that the company’s strategy in the UK is not purely based on economic factors, with Akio Toyoda, the president, speaking of a future 100 years down the road....
...Akio Toyoda, the president of Japan’s largest carmaker, met with Mr Abe on Friday evening and they are believed to have discussed Japan’s visit to the US and Mr Trump’s policies....
...Sakichi Toyoda, the founder of Toyota, once offered a ¥1m prize to the inventor of his dream: an electric battery that would free Japan forever from its dependence on imported oil....
...By contrast, Mr Toyoda, the chief executive, received ¥351m, a slight cut from the previous year. Last year, Toyota posted record profits driven by a cheaper yen and brisk sales in North America....
...Chief executive Akio Toyoda had previously pledged that the company would keep its business in the Midlands, whatever the result....
...Akio Toyoda, the company’s president, who converted to the need for driverless technology after meeting Paralympic athletes who wanted to ride in trendy cars, has said Toyota wants to commercialise cars...
...Akio Toyoda, president and chief executive, told the Financial Times that the company would still be making cars at its Burnaston plant, near Derby, regardless of Britain’s membership of the EU....
...After Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano came up with the basic technology for blue LEDs at Nagoya University in the mid-1980s, they launched a joint research project with Toyoda Gosei, an auto parts maker....
...So do Eiji Toyoda and Taiichi Ohno, co-creators of the “Toyota Way”, with its elimination of waste and use of just-in-time production methods....
...When Eiji Toyoda died last year, commentators – including this reviewer – rushed to extol him....
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