Who is the owner of Toyota now?
Akio Toyoda (豊田 章男, Toyoda Akio; born 3 May 1956) is a Japanese business executive who is the chairman of Toyota. The Toyoda family is reclaiming control of Toyota Industries to consolidate power across the group’s industrial empire. Akio Toyoda, grandson of Toyota Motors’ founder Kiichiro Toyoda, is leading a $33 billion effort to take private Toyota Industries—one of the automaker’s largest and oldest suppliers.Sakichi Toyoda, the founder of Toyota Industries Corporation, was born in 1867 in Yamaguchi-mura, Fuchi-no-kori, Totomi-no-kuni (presently Kosai City, Shizuoka Prefecture). He was the first son of Ikichi and Ei Toyoda.