Toyo intensifies focus on corporate strategy in new organisational rejig

Hyogo, Japan – Toyo Tire Corp. has intensified focus on corporate strategy, promoting the unit to a ‘full-fledged’ division status, effective 1 July.

The division, created to ‘increase the company’s corporate value’, will include the ‘secretary department, investors relations, and branding departments,' said Toyo 27 June.

As part of the rejig, Kunihiro Matsumoto will continue as the division general manager of the corporate strategy division, maintaining his current position.

Hiroshi Mizushima will move to the position of general manager, secretary department, while Hiroshi Ito will lead the IR department. Kei Nakamura will take over as head of branding department.