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* USA - CARMAKERS NEWS: Toyota is delegating more responsibility and autonomy to regional managers
* Michigan - Toyota to invest $28M, add 60 jobs at Ann Arbor tech center
Detroit,MICH,USA -The Detroit News, by Bryce G. Hoffman -September 5, 2013: -- Toyota Motor Corp. announced Thursday that it will invest more than $28 million and add 60 jobs at its technical center near Ann Arbor to expand powertrain research and development... The announcement was made by Bob Carter, vice president of Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A., during a speech before the Automotive Press Association at the Detroit Athletic Club. Carter said the investment is another sign of his company’s commitment to the United States and Michigan... In the past 20 months, Toyota has invested about $2 billion in its North American manufacturing facilities, adding more than 4,000 new jobs...
* Michigan - Opinion: Resurgent Toyota heeding recall lessons
Detroit,MICH,USA -The Detroit News, by Daniel Howes -September 6, 2013: -- Toyota Motor Corp., waylaid three years ago by a recall scandal whose aftershocks hurt sales, is pushing hard to repair its reputation... Under pressure from CEO Akio Toyoda and its critics, the Japanese automaker is delegating more responsibility and autonomy to regional managers, including promoting a former General Motors Corp. executive to its governing board of directors... Gone are the days when prices for vehicles to be sold in the United States and Canada are set at headquarters in Nagoya, Bob Carter, Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. Inc.’s senior vice president of automotive operations, said Thursday. Regional managers have been making those calls since January... Toyoda’s appearance, coming roughly eight months after he assumed the top job, exposed the disconnect between headquarters in Japan and its regions... For the first time, it has a North American CEO responsible for regional manufacturing, sales, marketing and an engineering center in Ann Arbor, home to four American chief engineers. Half of the company’s eight global regions are run by non-Japanese executives, two of whom are Americans... Toyota will never be an American company. But it is a global company that employs thousands of Americans across the country, including 1,300 in Michigan. And it’s beginning to recognize, in the wake of a punishing scandal, how much they can contribute in the rich market they call home... Imagine that...
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