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This excerpt taken from the TM 20-F filed Jun 24, 2009.

4.B BUSINESS OVERVIEW

Toyota primarily conducts business in the automotive industry. Toyota also conducts business in the finance and other industries. Toyota sold 7.56 million vehicles in fiscal 2009 on a consolidated basis. Toyota had net revenues of ¥20,529.5 billion and net loss of ¥436.9 billion in fiscal 2009.

Toyota’s business segments are automotive operations, financial services operations and all other operations. The following table sets forth Toyota’s sales to external customers in each of its business segments for each of the past three fiscal years.

 

     Yen in millions
     Year Ended March 31,
     2007    2008    2009

Automotive

   ¥ 21,914,168    ¥ 24,160,254    ¥ 18,550,501

Financial Services

     1,277,994      1,468,730      1,355,850

All Other

     755,929      660,256      623,219

 

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Toyota’s automotive operations include the design, manufacture, assembly and sale of passenger cars, minivans and commercial vehicles such as trucks and related parts and accessories. Toyota’s financial services business consists primarily of providing financing to dealers and their customers for the purchase or lease of Toyota vehicles. Toyota’s financial services also provide retail leasing through the purchase of lease contracts originated by Toyota dealers. Related to Toyota’s automotive operations is its development of intelligent transport systems (“ITS”). Toyota’s all other operations business segment includes the design and manufacture of prefabricated housing and information technology related businesses, including an e-commerce marketplace called GAZOO.com.

Toyota sells its vehicles in more than 170 countries and regions. Toyota’s primary markets for its automobiles are Japan, North America, Europe and Asia. The following table sets forth Toyota’s sales to external customers in each of its geographical markets for each of the past three fiscal years.

 

     Yen in millions
     Year Ended March 31,
     2007    2008    2009

Japan

   ¥ 8,152,884    ¥ 8,418,620    ¥ 7,471,916

North America

     8,771,495      9,248,950      6,097,676

Europe

     3,346,013      3,802,814      2,889,753

Asia

     1,969,957      2,790,987      2,450,412

Other*

     1,707,742      2,027,869      1,619,813

 

* “Other” consists of Central and South America, Oceania and Africa.

During fiscal 2009, 25.7% of Toyota’s automobile unit sales on a consolidated basis were in Japan, 29.2% were in North America, 14.0% were in Europe and 12.0% were in Asia. The remaining 19.1% of consolidated unit sales were in other markets.

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