The is a group of companies that have supplier, vendor and investment relationships with Toyota Industries and Toyota Motor vehicle manufacturing facilities. It is similar to a keiretsu in that no particular entity has outright control over the entire group, although unlike most keiretsu it does not contain a major bank.

Major group companies

There are 18 major companies that make up the Toyota Group:

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! Group company !! Established !! class=unsortable|Products

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| Toyota Industries || 1926 || manufactures textile machinery (looms), forklifts, automotive components, and other equipment

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| Toyota Motor || 1937 || manufactures vehicles

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| Aichi Steel || 1940 || manufactures automotive steel; 30% owned by Toyota Industries and Toyota Motor

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| JTEKT || 2006 || manufactures machine tools, auto parts; formed by the merger of Koyo Seiko (1921) and Toyoda Machine Works (1941)

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| Toyota Auto Body || 1945 || manufactures vehicles, parts and auto bodies; 100% owned by Toyota Motor

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| Toyota Tsusho || 1946 || trading company (sogo shosha) supporting global operations of Toyota Group companies; 33% owned by Toyota Industries and Toyota Motor

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| Aisin || 1949 || manufactures automotive components; 30% owned by Toyota Industries and Toyota Motor

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| Denso || 1949 || manufactures automotive components; Toyota Motor owns 24.55%, Toyota Industries owns 8.74%

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| Toyota Boshoku || 1918 || original Toyota company; manufactures auto parts and textiles

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| Towa Real Estate || 1953 || commercial real estate developer in Nagoya area

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| Toyota Central R&D Labs || 1960 || performs research and development for other Toyota Group companies

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| Toyota Motor East Japan || 2012 || manufactures vehicles and parts

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| Toyoda Gosei || 1949 || manufactures automotive components; 43% owned by Toyota Motor

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| Hino || 1942 || manufacturer of trucks and buses; 100% owned by Toyota Motor since 2001

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| Daihatsu || 1907 || manufactures compact automobiles; 100% owned by Toyota Motor since 2016

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| Toyota Housing Corporation || 2003 || residential construction

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| Toyota Motor Kyushu || 1991 || Lexus cars, engines, and hybrid systems

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| Woven by Toyota || 2021 || vehicle software, automated driving, Woven City

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Affiliates or partially owned subsidiaries

  • Kyoho kai group – Auto parts company – 211 companies.
  • Kyouei kai group – Logistic/facility company – 123 companies.
  • KDDI (Toyota owns 11.09% of the company)
  • Nagoya Broadcasting Network (Toyota owns 34.6% and is the largest single shareholder in the company; 36.9% of the stock are directly and indirectly (through TV Asahi Holdings Corporation) owned by Asahi Shimbun, making it the largest corporate group shareholder)
  • Subaru Corporation, manufacturer of Subaru automobiles. (Toyota owns 20% and is the largest single shareholder in the company)
  • Mazda (Toyota owns 5.05% of the company)
  • Suzuki (Toyota owns 4.9% of the company)
  • Isuzu (Toyota owns 4.6% of the company)
  • Misawa Homes Holdings, Inc. (Toyota owns 13.4% of the company)
  • Primearth EV Energy Co – a joint venture between Toyota and Panasonic (1996 to present)
  • Toyota Canada – a joint venture between Toyota (51%) and Mitsui & Co (49%) (1964 to present)
  • Yamaha (Toyota owns 3.8% of the company)
  • Panasonic (Toyota owns 2.8% of the company)
  • Nippon Telegraph & Telephone (Toyota owns 2.09% of the company)
  • MS&AD Insurance Group (Toyota owns 8.88% and is the largest single shareholder in the company)
  • Fuji Pharma Co., Ltd.

Former group companies

  • NUMMI – a joint venture between Toyota and General Motors (1984 to 2010)
  • United Australian Automobile Industries – a joint venture between Toyota Australia and Holden (1989 to 1996)
  • Tesla (Toyota owned 1.43%) (2010 to 2016)

Further reading

References

  • Toyota Group