Manufacturing Magazine April 2015 | Page 29

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GLOBAL AUTOMOTIVE MANUFACTURERS 2015

01 Toyota

Toyota is a Japanese manufacturer whose name is shared with the location of its headquarters in the Aichi region of Japan . In 2014 the corporation consisted of over 300,000 employees worldwide and became the twelfth-largest company in the world by revenue .
Toyota was the world ’ s first automobile manufacturer to produce more than 10 million vehicles per year , doing so in 2012 and 2013 according to company data . 2014 also saw Toyota become the largest listed company in Japan by both market capitalisation and revenue , which made it worth more than twice as much as second highest ranked company .
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