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Fujio Cho (張 富士夫, Chō Fujio, born February 2, 1937 [1]) is honorary chairman of Toyota Motor Corporation. Chō is only the second "outsider" to head Toyota Motor Co. since the members of the founding Toyoda family stepped aside in 1995. He earned a bachelor's degree in law from the University of Tokyo in March 1960.
As President of Toyota Motor Corporation, Fujio Cho headed Toyota’s entire scope of operations from its world headquarters in Tokyo. He is widely regarded as the founding father of Toyota Motor Manufacturing, U.S.A., Inc. (TMC).
Fujio Chō (born February 2, 1937) is the honorary chairman of Toyota Motor Corporation. He was previously the President of Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky (TMMK). He is only the second "outsider" to lead Toyota since the founding Toyoda family members stepped aside in 1995.
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Fujio Cho was born in Tokyo in 1937. He entered Tokyo University in the mid-1950s, where he studied law—an unlikely discipline for a future industrialist. He graduated in 1960 at the age of 23 and began working for Toyota that same year. He became a member of the Toyota corporate family through "adoption," not birth, as had been the case for his pr...
More than any other major Toyota official Cho would be shaped by his American experience, of which he was destined to have plenty. The then president Shoichiro Toyoda was so impressed with Cho that he appointed him as general manager of Toyota Motor Manufacturing USA. When the company decided to open its first North American plant in Georgetown, Ke...
In 1999 Okuda retired, and Cho became the second consecutive nonfamily Toyota president. Cho accelerated the pace of growth that had been set by Okuda. In the first three months of 2003 Toyota upstaged Ford in global unit sales for the first time. Much of the credit was given to Cho, who now attracted much media attention. Fortune described Toyota ...
Cho perceived that North America would remain absolutely paramount to the success of his company. In 2002 and 2003 Toyota sold more vehicles there than in Japan, amounting to almost 80 percent of total worldwide profits. Moreover, America was his key test market. If a car, truck, or sport-utility vehicle (SUV) sold well there, Cho and his colleague...
Message. Chairman of the Board. Fujio Cho. November, 2012. Thanks to many people, Toyota Motor Corporation was able to greet its 75th anniversary this year. Support from our customers around the world, our suppliers, our dealers and our partner companies and the efforts of our employees are a true gift for which I am sincerely grateful.
1 de ene. de 2005 · New Year's Greeting from President Fujio Cho. I would like to wish everyone a happy New Year. Looking back on 2004, for the first time in quite a few years, Japan as a whole showed confidence and vitality, with the economy displaying signs of recovery from the beginning of the year and higher investment and employment in industry.
FORTUNE. Monday, January 24, 2005 By Clay Chandler. Fujio Cho When Fujio Cho arrived in Georgetown, (Illustration: Robert Ky., in 1986 to supervise production at Risko) Toyota's first American factory, he soon discovered it was easier to export cars than Toyota's ideas about how to build them. "There were cultural differences right from the ...
