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Gulf States Toyota, founded in 1969, is a private distributor of Toyota vehicles in the United States. They are franchised by Toyota Motor Sales, USA to sell vehicles to car dealerships in the five states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Texas. [ 3 ]
Southeast Toyota Distributors is the larger of the two private distributors of Toyota vehicles in the United States. [14] [5] The other is Gulf States Toyota in Houston, founded by the late Thomas H. Friedkin. [15] Dealerships in the remaining areas of the United States are supplied by Toyota Motor Sales, USA. [14]
Southeast Toyota Distributors, a subsidiary of JM Family Enterprises, is the world's largest independent distributor of Toyota vehicles in the United States. With 177 independent Toyota dealers in the five-state region of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and North and South Carolina, Southeast Toyota sells 24% of Toyota sales in the U.S.
GST is the second largest of only two franchised Toyota distributors in the United States. [3] In 2021, Gulf States Toyota ranked 45th on the Forbes list of America’s Largest Private Companies. [4] Gulf States Toyota Section - We suggest removing the content as this section is not needed once the name is changed to Gulf States Toyota.
Thomas Friedkin was the son of Jean and Kenny Friedkin.His father was a combat pilot and trainer with the British Royal Air Force during World War II.After the war, his father opened Friedkin Aeronautics, a flight school in San Diego, California, [2] before founding Pacific Southwest Airlines in 1949 with a single leased DC-3. [3]
On October 26, 1968, he entered into an agreement to distribute Toyota vehicles from the port in Jacksonville, Florida, to the states of Florida, Georgia, Alabama, North and South Carolina. His Southeast Toyota Distributors (SET) was founded that year [ 12 ] and in 2006, distributed over 400,000 vehicles, 20% of all new Toyotas sold in the ...
Toyota Motor North America (TMNA) is the operating subsidiary that oversees all operations of the Toyota Motor Corporation in Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Its operations include research and development, manufacturing, sales, marketing, after sales and corporate functions, which are controlled by TMNA but sometimes executed by other subsidiaries and holding companies.
The business known as Toyota Financial Services covers more than 30 countries and regions, including Japan. Financial services operations are coordinated by a wholly owned subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC), Toyota Financial Services Corporation (TFSC), which has overall responsibility for the financial services subsidiaries globally.