BookTitleToyota Tsusho 70-Year History

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Toyota Tsusho 70-Year History

2003 2004 2005 2006 20074 Founds Toyotsu Electronics.5Receives third-party allocation ofshares from Tomen Corp.9 Buys U.K. Toyota Lexus・10dealerships Jemca and McCarthy.7Begins equity participation inTomen Petroleum (S) Pte. Ltd.,and changes its company name toTomen Toyota Tsusho PetroleumPte. Ltd.11Provides relief to the disastercreated by the Sumatraearthquake and large coastaltsunami from the Indian Ocean.Toyotsu Newpack Co., Ltd. movesits headquarters and factory toMiyoshi-cho. ?4 Merges with Tomen Corp.5Changes number of stocks perunit from 1,000 to 100.45One year after the merger withTomen Corp., the number ofstockholders increases by sixtimes.Concludes business and capitalpartnership contract with FukuskeCorp.1Toyotsu Logistics Service Co., Ltd.completes the Miyoshi LogisticsCenter. ?U.K. Toyota Lexus dealership12 Founds Hangzhou KobelcoConstruction Machinery Co., Ltd.in China. ?Bunkering6Junzo Shimizu becomes president.Stocking series popular with womenTenth president, Junzo Shimizu12 Concludes merger contract withTomen Corp. ?? Hangzhou Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.? Merger contract concluded with Tomen Corp.? Toyotsu Newpack Co., Ltd.? Miyoshi Logistics Center, Toyotsu Logistics Service Co., Ltd.3 The Iraq War begins.3The severe acute respiratorysyndrome SARS becomespandemic in China.10 Shinagawa Station begins servicewith the Tokai bullet train inJapan.9One barrel of crude oil futuresexceeds 50 dollars in price in theNew York Mercantile Exchange.10 An earthquake occurs in theChuetsu area of Niigata, Japan.12 An earthquake occurs off thecoast of Sumatra.234Chubu Centrair InternationalAirport opens.The 2005 World Exposition, Aichi,Japan is held.An anti-Japan demonstration ona scale of 10,000 people takesplace in Beijing.28The estimated world populationexceeds 6.5 billion people.The number of new automobilessold in the U.S. for July bringsToyota to second in sales for thefirst time ever.11China’s 2006 gross domesticproduct reaches a real growthrate of 10.7%.Ford’s 2006 account comes toa final deficit of 12.746 billiondollars.10 Japan’s postal service becomesprivatized.General Corporate Timeline27