SAN ANTONIO, Nov. 30, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Toyota Motor
Manufacturing, Texas, Inc. (TMMTX)
is pleased to announce that Senior Vice President Kevin Voelkel has been promoted to president,
TMMTX effective January 1, 2019.
Voelkel joined TMMTX in 2005, and played an integral role in
establishing the San Antonio
manufacturing facility inclusive of Toyota's first on-site supplier
campus.
Voelkel went on to serve Toyota Motor North America in the dual
role of vice president of One Toyota Competitiveness and group
manager of production strategy. In 2018, Voelkel returned to TMMTX
as senior vice president focusing on operational and long-term
company initiatives.
Current president, Yoshihisa
Nagatani, will transition to his new role as executive vice
president with Toyota do Brasil, after four years of strong
leadership at TMMTX.
About Toyota
Toyota's Team Texas is 7,200 team members strong and includes 23
on-site suppliers. The facility produced 267,000 Tundra and Tacoma
trucks in 2017. Each year, more than 22,000 guests stop at the
TMMTX visitor center to tour the plant.
Toyota (NYSE:TM) has been a part of the cultural fabric in the
U.S. and North America for 60
years, and is committed to advancing sustainable, next-generation
mobility through our Toyota and Lexus brands. During that
time, Toyota has created a tremendous value chain as our teams have
contributed to world-class design, engineering, and assembly of
more than 36 million cars and trucks in North America, where we operate 14
manufacturing plants (10 in the U.S.) and directly employ more than
47,000 people (more than 37,000 in the U.S.). Our 1,800 North
American dealerships (nearly 1,500 in the U.S.) sold more than 2.7
million cars and trucks (2.4 million in the U.S.) in 2017 – and
about 87 percent of all Toyota vehicles sold over the past 15 years
are still on the road today.
Through the Start Your Impossible campaign, Toyota highlights
the way it partners with community, civic, academic and
governmental organizations to address our society's most pressing
mobility challenges. We believe that when people are free to move,
anything is possible. For more information about Toyota,
visit www.toyotanewsroom.com.
Media Contact:
Luisa
Casso
luisa.casso@toyota.com
210-268-2732
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