BookTitleToyota Tsusho 70-Year History

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Toyota Tsusho 70-Year History

Thefollowingsalesandotherbusinessobjectiveswereestablished:- Sales of various machinery and parts, metal products, wood products,pharmaceuticals, and household goods- Sales of various textile raw materials and products- Machinery design and construction contracting- Trade- Operations incidental to the above itemsThe month after the company was established, the restricted private-sector tradeprocedures were simplified, and the company began its export of automatic loomsto India.Although Nisshin Tsusho was a fresh start, the postwar chaos continued. Itshiring of repatriates from overseas swelled the company’s ranks to 205 employees.The organizational structure was as follows:Toyota Sangyo emblemOrganization at the Time of EstablishmentBoard of DirectorsGeneral Affairs Department, General Affairs SectionTransportation SectionAccounting Department, Accounting SectionWarehouse SectionSales Department, Trade SectionTool SectionTextile SectionAutomotive Parts SectionSpinning SectionGeneral Merchandise SectionMachinery SectionDelivery SectionOperations Department Section 1Section 2Section 3Osaka BranchTokyo OfficeNisshin Tsusho letter of appointmentNisshin Tsusho emblem4 Brisk Market for Textile Machinery and Beginning of CottonImportsThe backbone of Nisshin Tsusho was the textile-related business. It alsohandled automotive tools and supplies, rope-making machines for agriculturaluse, and noodle-making machines, but its main strength was the textile machinesthat were subject to brisk demand in the textile industry. Among the ToyotaGroup companies, the throstle spinning machines of Aichi Kogyo (currentlyAisin Seiki) and the knitting machines, hosiery looms, and hosiery machinesof Kariya Machine Works (later Toyoda Machine Works and now JTEKT) sawsuch explosive sales growth that Nisshin Tsusho formed an independent TextileMachinery Section to handle the sales of textile machinery and increased thenumber of personnel. Starting with a delivery of 20 looms to Fujii Textiles inCotton cargo handlingHistory53