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Toyota Replaces Third-Generation Chief Executive Akio Toyoda With Koji Sato


Toyota stated the modifications to its government construction might be efficient from April 1. (File)

Tokyo:

Toyota named Koji Sato as its new president, CEO, and working officer Thursday, changing third-generation chief government Akio Toyoda — who will change into board chairman.

The Japanese automotive large, at present the world’s top-selling automaker, stated in an announcement that the modifications to its government construction might be efficient from April 1.

Toyoda, 66, turned Toyota’s youngest president in 2009, because the agency returned to its household foundations after the worldwide monetary crash.

He’s the grandson of firm founder Kiichiro Toyoda. His father Shoichiro Toyoda additionally led Toyota within the Eighties and 90s.

After a bumpy begin on the helm, he turned often called a charismatic chief tasked with navigating a interval of main upheaval for the auto trade.

He steered the group by means of a quality-control scandal that noticed him apologise earlier than the US Congress, and provide chain chaos brought on by Japan’s 2011 quake and tsunami.

Extra lately, he has labored to strengthen Toyota’s ambitions in the important thing electrical car sector.

Incoming president Sato, 53, was beforehand the corporate’s chief branding officer, and president of its luxurious Lexus model.

(Apart from the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV workers and is revealed from a syndicated feed.)

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