BookTitleToyota Tsusho 70-Year History

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Toyota Tsusho 70-Year History

2013 2014 2015 2016 20173Enters into Indonesia’s hotelresidence business.6For the first time, 3 outsidedirectors join the company (2 ofwhich are female).2Completes the Olkaria GeothermalPower Plant in Kenya.3Concludes intent forcomprehensive collaboration withFrance’s Bollore Group.4Founds Nexty Electronics Corp.56Axia South Cikarang hotel residencePresident Jun Karube becomesthe Republic of Kenya’s honoraryconsul in Nagoya.Appointment as Honorary Consulof Kenya in Nagoya by Kenya’s VicePresident RutoParticipates in the fifth TokyoInternational Conference onAfrican Development (TICAD).77Concludes the promotion offishery business memorandumof understanding with KindaiUniversity, and becomes the firstin the world to artificially producePacific bluefin tuna hatchlings ona large scale.Artificially produced Pacific bluefintunaHolds the opening ceremony forToyota Kenya Academy.The Toyota Kenya Academy455Olkaria Geothermal Power PlantRecords an extraordinary loss ofapproximately 14 billion yen dueto a decline in the value of itsinvestments.Begins the first Japanese TechnoPark business in Cambodia.Techno Park Poi PetBuys Brazil’s grain infrastructurebusiness company NovaAgri.NovaAgri’s inland warehouse38The fiscal year ending March 31,2016 comes to a final deficit of4.37 billion yen the first loss sincethe fiscal year ending March 31,2000.Participates in the sixth TokyoInternational Conference onAfrican Development (TICAD).Sixth Tokyo International Conferenceon African Development (TICAD)12 Makes France’s CFAO into a fullsubsidiary.Foundation of Nexty Electronics Corp.10 Fully opens complex facility GlobalGate in the Sasashima 24 district,Nagoya.10 Begins export of“KindaiTuna”raised through full-life cycleaquaculture.201834The fiscal year ended March 31,2018 renews record-high profitscontinuing 2 terms with a finalsurplus of 130.2 billion yen.Ichiro Kashitani becomespresident & CEO.10 Corporately owned basketballteam, the Fighting Eagles Nagoya,goes professional.Meeting the president of Senegal12 Transfers 67% of ChubuSyokuryo’s total number ofauthorized shares to Kokubu.Fighting Eagles Nagoya7Twelfth president & CEO, IchiroKashitaniMarks the 70th year anniversaryof Toyota Tsusho’s foundation.249Park Geun-hye becomes presidentof, and the first female presidentof South Korea.An earthquake occurs in Sichuan,China.The 2020 Summer OlympicGames are awarded Tokyo.4 Japan’s sales tax is raised to 8%.5A military coup d’etat occurs inThailand.9 Mt. Ontake erupts in Japan.78U.S.?Cuba diplomatic relationsare revived.Large-scale warehouse explosionsoccur in Tianjin, China.11 Paris experiences multiplesimultaneous acts of terrorism.14The Bank of Japan decides tointroduce negative interest ratesfor the first time.Earthquakes occur in Kumamoto,Japan.5 The Ise-Shima G7 Summit is held.Jan 2017Trump becomes president of theUnited States.Feb 2017The 150th anniversary of SakichiToyoda’s birth is held.General Corporate Timeline29