Toyota Tsusho

Toyota Kinyuu Kaisha, the Company's predecessor, was a company established in 1936 to provide sales financing for Toyota vehicles. After World War II, holdings companies became prohibited by the second zaibatsu designation, which led to the dissolution of Toyota Kinyuu Kaisha (then known as Toyota Sangyo Kaisha, Ltd.). However, the trading division of this company was transferred to Nisshin Tsusho Kaisha Ltd., Toyota Sangyo's successor established in 1948. Nisshin Tsusho would later evolve to become today's Toyota Tsusho Corporation. The Company continued to grow as a general trading company and as a member of the Toyota Group, largely by exporting finished automobiles, and eventually came to be listed on both the Nagoya Stock Exchange and the Tokyo Stock Exchange.