Who Founded Toyota and How?

Sakichi Toyoda was the founder of Toyota Industries Corporation, established in 1926 to manufacture and sell the automatic looms he had invented and perfected. His son, Kiichiro Toyoda, was the founder of Toyota Motor Corporation and the automotive-focused Toyota Group. Kiichiro used the spirit of invention and the business base inherited from his father to expand into the automotive business and lay the foundations for the current Toyota Group. To understand the spirit of founding Toyota Motor Corporation, it is necessary to look back at the ideas of Kiichiro, the company's founder, and Sakichi, his father, and trace their business path before cars. Kiichiro's vision for Toyota Motor Corporation was realized when it produced 7,000 cars a day, more than double the total number of Toyota cars that had been manufactured until then.