BookTitleToyota Tsusho 70-Year History

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Toyota Tsusho 70-Year History

2008?2018Working to Expand into theAfrican Market with Acquisitionof CFAO2008 2009 2010 2011 2012Company Events145Founds Green Metals UK, Ltd. inthe U.K. ?Founds Hokkaido SmeltingTechnology.Participates in the fourth TokyoInternational Conference onAfrican Development (TICAD).4Merges the three companies ofTomen Chemicals Corp., TomenPlastic Hanbai, and ToyotsuPlachem Corp., and foundsToyotsu Chemiplas Corp. ?10 Acquires additional shares fromFukuske Corp., and makes it intoa subsidiary.1Toyotsu Syscom Corp. completesTechno Center.4 Closes down the Kariya Branch.9President Junzo Shimizu becomesKazakhstan’s honorary consul inNagoya.3Contributes a donation of 100million yen as relief to the GreatEast Japan Earthquake.14Makes Eurus Energy HoldingsCorp. into a subsidiary.TMEE begins production of ToyotaSUVs in Egypt.Fukuske’s emblem and logotypeNew Toyota SUV drives off productionline, Egypt6Meeting the president of MauritaniaConcludes a memorandumof understanding for bilateralcooperation in infrastructure andenergy fields with Kazakhstan.Induction of President Junzo Shimizuof Kazakhstan’s honorary consul inNagoya.10 TEMCO Corp., Toyotsu Machinery,Toyotsu SK, and DICO merge,changing the consolidatedcompany name to ToyotsuMachinery Corp.3Disaster following the Great EastJapan Earthquake tsunamiProvides approximately 10thousand pieces of bread andother products together with FirstBaking as relief.6 Jun Karube becomes president12 Buys 97% of France’s CFAOstocks.Purchase of 97% of France’s CFAOstocks7Conclusion of memorandumof understanding for bilateralcooperation with KazakhstanFounds agricultural productioncorporation VEGi-Dream Kurihara.Celebration for the formation ofToyotsu Machinery Corp. and ToyotsuTechno Corp.10 Founds Toyotsu Techno Corp.Eleventh president Jun KarubeVEGi-Dream No. 3 Greenhouse (2013)12 Founds Toyota Tsusho VietnamCo., Ltd. in Vietnam.? Green Metals UK, Ltd.? Foundation of Toyotsu Chemiplas Corp.General Events7The Hokkaido Toyako Summit isheld.1Obama becomes president of theUnited States.1Japan Airlines files for theCorporate Reorganization Act.3The Great East Japan Earthquakeoccurs.2Construction of Tokyo Skytree iscompleted.79In New York, one barrel of crudeoil futures reaches 147.27 dollarsfor a time.The Lehman Brothers bankruptcyoccurs.5 Japan begins a lay judge system.6General Motors (GM) files forbankruptcy.9A Chinese fishing boat collideswith a Japanese coast guard boataround the Senkaku Islands.3Rates for Japanese yen become77 yen to the dollar for a time.10 Severe flooding occurs inThailand.9Anti-Japan demonstrations occurthroughout China in reaction toJapan’s nationalization of theSenkaku Islands.11 Xi Jinping is elected at the firstplenary meeting of the 18thCentral Committee in China.28