Corporate Governance

Basic Perspective of Corporate Governance

Toyota Industries strives to enhance the long-term stability of its corporate value and maintain society's trust by earnestly fulfilling its CSR commitments in accordance with its Basic Philosophy.
To that end, Toyota Industries strives to enhance its corporate governance based on the belief that maintaining and improving management efficiency and the fairness and transparency of its corporate activities is of utmost importance.

Implementation Structure

Toyota Industries convenes monthly meetings of the Board of Directors to resolve important management matters and monitor the execution of duties by directors. Outside directors attend meetings of the Board of Directors, in which they give opinions and ask questions as deemed necessary to ensure legality and validity of decisions of the Board of Directors as well as directors' execution of duties. Additionally, we have adopted the Managing Officers System, which enables managing officers to focus solely on the execution of business operations and speed up decision making. The Management Committee, which is composed of directors above the executive vice president level as well as relevant directors, managing officers and corporate auditors, deliberates on a variety of issues concerning important management matters such as corporate vision, management policies, medium-term business strategies and major investments.
Toyota Industries has a divisional organization system, with significant authority delegated to each business division. For especially crucial matters, however, we have established the Business Operation Committee to enable the president to meet with the heads of each business division regularly to monitor and follow the status of their business execution. To strengthen our business structure, in June 2010 we set up the new position of business division executive director to perform such duties as drawing up strategies, while the division heads concentrate on the execution of business operations. At meetings of the Management Council, directors, managing officers and corporate auditors convene to report and confirm the monthly status of business operations and share overall deliberations at Board of Directors meetings and other management-related information. Matters pertaining to quality, safety, human resources, the environment and other aspects are discussed at corresponding functional meetings and by respective committees.

Corporate Governance Structure

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Emergency Profit Improvement Committee: In response to the rapid downturn in our business environment, Toyota Industries has established the Emergency Profit Improvement Committee on December 1, 2008 directly under the president. Aiming to reduce expenses and other costs, we are carrying out profit improvement activities throughout the Company via seven different subcommittees.

Board of Corporate Auditors System

Toyota Industries has adopted a board of corporate auditors system. Two full-time corporate auditors and three outside corporate auditors attend meetings of the Board of Directors to monitor the execution of duties by directors. At the same time, meetings of the Board of Corporate Auditors are held once a month to discuss and make decisions on important matters related to auditing. The full-time corporate auditors carry out auditing by attending primary meetings and receiving reports directly from directors. Additionally, we have assigned dedicated personnel, while corporate auditors monitor the legality and efficiency of management through collaboration with independent auditors and the Audit Department.
As a publicly listed company, Toyota Industries strives to ensure the fairness and transparency of management. Following the Securities Listing Regulations stipulated respectively by the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Osaka Securities Exchange and Nagoya Stock Exchange, we designated as independent auditors two outside auditors who have no conflicts of interest with our shareholders to further enhance our corporate governance.

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