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Toyota hosts recycling event, 300 tons of waste diverted from landfills since 1994

Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky, Inc. (TMMK) teamed up with the City of Georgetown and Scott County Fiscal Court this week to present its biennial community recycling event…Read more

 

Toyota’s 100 Cars for Good: Voting starts today but Wednesday is first Ky nonprofit

Voting started at 10 a.m. today for the first non-profits competing for Toyota’s 100 Cars for Good…Read more

 

Georgetown Toyota plant to expand engine assembly, create 86 new jobs

Toyota announced today it will increase annual engine assembly capacity of 4-cylinder engines by more than 100,000 at its plant in Georgetown…Read more

 

Nineteen Kentucky nonprofits among finalists in Toyota’s 100 Cars for Good, voting May 14

Nineteen nonprofit organizations across Kentucky are among the 500 finalists in 100 Cars for Good…Read more

 

Young women writers pursue passion with Carnegie’s creative writing series

Young women writers pursue passion with Carnegie’s creative writing series…Read more

 

Toyota Kentucky president Wil James named to Savoy Magazine top 100 list

Toyota Kentucky president Wil James named to Savoy Magazine top 100 list…Read more

 

Toyota reinvents more than the Camry in extended Super Bowl XLVI commercial

Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. today announced the premiere of the extended version of its Super Bowl XLVI commercial… Read More

 

Susan Whitney, 8th employee, first American hired at Toyota Kentucky

Susan Whitney is employee No. 8 at Toyota Motor Manufacturing in Georgetown.  But she was the first American hired 25 years ago… Read more

 

He saw Toyota from the ground up, and ‘transformational’ is the only word for it

Twenty-five years ago, Jim Gray was a 33-year-old working in the family construction business – and project manager on the ground at Georgetown where a massive building project was underway.  Gray Construction had a piece of it… Read more

 

25 years of corporate citizenship

TMMK brings to its operations a company culture of “giving back.” Benefiting the community where Toyota operates and where its team members and customers live is a key ingredient of the company’s philosophy and operating principles.  To that end, TMMK supports various organizations which improve quality of life across the Commonwealth – in ways measured by more than the $40 million-plus in donations it has given back to charitable organizations across the state… Read more

 

Wil James knows the company inside out,
starting from the production floor

A young mechanical engineer was drawn to Kentucky by the intrigue of working with a brand-new automobile manufacturing plant from ground zero.  For the next 24 years, starting from a position as group leader in the facilities area, he meandered his way up and around the company’s various U.S. sites… Read more

 

What a difference 25 years can make

The impact of Toyota’s decision 25 years ago to locate its first North American automobile manufacturing facility in Kentucky can be measured in many ways. There are the obvious, tangible ways – jobs, payroll, investment, economic impact, philanthropy. And there are the not-so-obvious – the ones that changed a state’s perception of itself, that changed fundamentally the kinds of jobs Kentuckians could aspire to have, that changed cultural, ethnic and national prejudices, that pushed an insular state into a global arena… Read more