03 2000-2017
Resolve to become a company creating value

2000

2000
March
  • Creates business and capital partnership with Tomen.
Creation of business and capital partnership with Tomen
2000
April
  • Merges with Kasho.
Merger with Kasho
2000
June
  • Founds Vest Tech Japan.
2000
October
  • Founds Toyota Jamaica Ltd. (Jamaica) as direct Toyota automobile retailer.
Opening ceremony of direct Toyota automobile retailer Toyota Jamaica, Ltd.
2000
December
  • Concludes business partnership agreement with Kimura Unity.
  • Becomes ISO 14001 certified.
Conclusion of business partnership agreement with Kimura Unity

2001

2001
February
  • Gains Tomen's steel-related subsidiary, Oriental Kogyo, and Kanto Coil Center.
2001
April
  • Founds joint venture company Care Port Japan, which settles caregiving payments.
2001
June
  • Appoints Masaaki Furukawa president & CEO.
9th president & CEO, Masaaki Furukawa
2001
October
  • Newly buys Tomen-owned shares in electronic component seller Shanghai Hongri.
New purchase of Tomen-owned shares in electronic component seller Shanghai Hongri.

2002

2002
April
  • Toyotsu Logistics completes its Anjo Sales Office Device Logistics Center.
Anjo Sales Office Device Logistics Center
2002
June
  • Gains Tomen's nonferrous metal business.
2002
Nobember
  • Gains Nichimen's Daihatsu-related business.

2003

2003
April
  • Founds Toyotsu Electronics.
2003
May
  • Receives third-party allocation of shares from Tomen.
2003
September
  • Buys Toyota Lexus dealerships Jemca and McCarthy in U.K.
U.K. Toyota Lexus dealership

2004

2004
July
  • Begins equity participation in Tomen Petroleum (S) Pte. Ltd., and renames it Tomen Toyota Tsusho Petroleum.
Bunkering
2004
December
  • Founds Hangzhou Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd. (China).
Hangzhou Kobelco Construction Machinery Co., Ltd.

2005

2005
January
  • Provides disaster relief to victims of Indian Ocean earthquake (Sumatra-Andaman earthquake) and tsunami.
  • Toyotsu New Pack moves headquarters and factory to Miyoshi-cho, Aichi.
  • Toyotsu Logistics completes Miyoshi Logistics Center.
Toyotsu New Pack
Miyoshi Logistics Center, Toyotsu Logistics
2005
June
  • Appoints Junzo Shimizu president & CEO.
10th president & CEO, Junzo Shimizu
2005
December
  • Concludes merger contract with Tomen.
Conclusion of merger contract with Tomen

2006

2006
April
  • Merges with Tomen.
2006
May
  • Changes number of stocks per unit from 1,000 to 100.

2007

2007
April
  • One year after merger with Tomen, number of shareholders increases by six times.
2007
May
  • Concludes business and capital partnership contract with Fukuske.
Popular stocking series

2008

2008
January
  • Founds Green Metals UK, Ltd. (U.K.).
Green Metals UK, Ltd.
2008
April
  • Founds Hokkaido Smelting Technology.
2008
May
  • Participates in Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) IV.
Meeting president of Mauritania
2008
June
  • Concludes MoU on mutual cooperation in infrastructure and energy with Kazakhstan.
Conclusion of MoU with Kazakhstan
2008
July
  • Founds agricultural corporation Vegi-Dream Kurihara.
Vegi-Dream Kurihara's third firm in 2013
2008
December
  • Founds Toyota Tsusho Vietnam Company Limited (Vietnam).

2009

2009
April
  • Merges Tomen Chemical, Tomen Plastics, and Toyotsu Plachem to found Toyotsu Chemiplas.
Foundation of Toyotsu Chemiplas
2009
October
  • Acquires additional shares from Fukuske, and makes it subsidiary.
Making Fukuske subsidiary

2010

2010
January
  • Toyotsu Syscom completes Techno Center.
2010
April
  • Closes Kariya Branch.
2010
September
  • President & CEO Junzo Shimizu becomes Kazakhstan's honorary consul in Nagoya.
President & CEO Junzo Shimizu becoming Kazakhstan's honorary consul in Nagoya
2010
October
  • Toyotsu Machinery, Toyotsu SK, and DICO merge, changing consolidated company name to Toyotsu Machinery.
  • Founds Toyotsu Techno.
Celebration for formation of Toyotsu Machinery and Toyotsu Techno

2011

2011
March
  • Donates 100 million yen to victims of Great East Japan Earthquake.
  • Provides 10 thousand pieces of bread made by First Baking as relief.
Tsunami devastation caused by Great East Japan Earthquake
2011
June
  • Appoints Jun Karube president & CEO.
11th president & CEO, Jun Karube

2012

2012
April
  • Toyota Tsusho takes part in planning of event featuring Toyota SUV's drive off production line in Egypt.
Toyota Tsusho takes part in planning of event featuring Toyota SUV's drive off production line in Egypt
2012
December
  • Buys 97% of shares in France's CFAO.
Purchase of 97% share in France's CFAO.

2013

2013
April
  • Enters Indonesia's hotel residence business.
Outside first hotel residence, Axia
2013
May
  • President & CEO Jun Karube becomes Republic of Kenya's honorary consul in Nagoya.
Appointment as honorary consul of Kenya in Nagoya by Kenyan Vice President Ruto
2013
June
  • Participates in TICAD V.
Meeting president of Senegal
2013
December
  • Transfers 67% of Chubu Syokuryo's authorized shares to Kokubu.

2014

2014
June
  • Appoints two women as outside directors (members of board) as first appointment of non-male directors.
2014
July
  • Concludes promotion of fishery business memorandum of understanding with Kinki University, and becomes first in world to artificially produce Pacific bluefin tuna hatchlings on large scale.
  • Holds opening ceremony for Toyota Kenya Academy.
Commercially produced Pacific bluefin tuna hatchlings (left) Toyota Kenya Academy (right)

2015

2015
January
  • Buys Brazil's grain infrastructure business company Novaagri.
Novaagri's inland warehouse
2015
February
  • Completes Olkaria Geothermal Power Plant in Kenya.
Olkaria Geothermal Power Plant
2015
April
  • Begins first Japanese technopark business in Cambodia.
  • Record extraordinary loss of approximate sum of 14 billion yen through investment in European recycle business company.
Techno Park Poi Pet
2015
October
  • Corporately owned basketball team, Fighting Eagles Nagoya, goes professional.
  • Lowers full-year consolidated projection to minus 35 billion yen.
Fighting Eagles Nagoya

2016

2016
March
  • Concludes letter of intent for comprehensive collaboration with France's Bollore Group.
2016
July
  • Fiscal year ending March 31, 2016 results in 44 billion yen loss, making first deficit since fiscal year ending March 31, 2000.
2016
August
  • Participates in TICAD VI.
Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) VI
2016
December
  • Makes France's CFAO full subsidiary.

2017

2017
April
  • Founds NEXTY Electronics.
Foundation of NEXTY Electronics
2017
June
  • Net income comes to record all time high of 107.9 billion yen.
2017
October
  • Fully opens Global Gate in Nagoya's Sasashima 24 district.
  • Begins export of completely farmed "Kindai Tuna."