July 16, 2012
SR Inc welcomes Toyota to the Sustainable Business & Enterprise Roundtable
Toyota is a multinational automaker founded by Kiichiro Toyoda in 1937 and headquartered in Toyota, Aichi, Japan. Toyota employs over 317,734 people worldwide, and was the world’s largest automobile manufacturer by production in 2010. Toyota is the ninth largest company in the world by revenue.
Toyota adopted the “Toyota Way 2001,” an expression of values and conduct guidelines that all Toyota employees should embrace. Under the two headings of Respect for People and Continuous Improvement, Toyota summarizes its values and conduct guidelines with five principles for working toward a future where a wide range of innovative vehicle and fuel technologies and infrastructures converge to create an economically vibrant, mobile society in harmony with the environment.
Based on The Toyota Way, the company’s environmental commitment is a way of life, extending across all of its operations and through the full life cycle of its products. Through its strategy of sustainable mobility, Toyota is developing and managing vehicles and technologies through their “life-cycle assessment” footprint so that it delivers the right vehicle, at the right time.
