ABOUT TOYOTA MATERIAL HANDLING’S EUROPEAN DESIGN STUDIO
As a part of the Toyota Group, Toyota Material Handling’s European Design Center focuses on the movement of goods. Our challenge is finding the best way of moving things, creating specialised logistics solutions for the best possible user experience, with first-rate quality and minimal impact on the environment, responding to the rapidly developing needs across businesses and industries.
Design Center employs a team of dedicated design professionals from all over Europe, creatives who have the knack to come up with the right designs. Designs that seamlessly blend the functional and the aesthetical, for the ultimate user experience. Our endurance and success in the logistics industry calls for the most talented, the most forward-thinking designers in the business. That’s why we launched the Toyota Logistic Design Competition (TLDC) in 2014, not only to scout for talent, but also to uncover fresh, innovative ideas that drive real change.
Since the start, in 2006, Design Center has won more than 40 international design awards, including Red Dot: Best of the Best, iF DESIGN AWARD Gold, and GOOD DESIGN Long Life Design. Our main studio is located in Mjölby, Sweden, where Toyota Material Handling Europe has its headquarters. Since 2019, we have a satellite studio in Bologna, Italy.
ABOUT TOYOTA OPEN LABS
Toyota Open Labs is an open innovation platform connecting startups, scaleups and innovative SMEs with business units across the Toyota ecosystem. Backed by Toyota’s resources and global reach, Toyota Open Labs is an extension of Toyota Motor Corporation, a global automotive manufacturing and innovation leader.
This collaborative venture brings together Toyota Motor Europe, Toyota Tsusho Europe, KINTO Europe, Toyota Mobility Foundation and Woven Capital. By bringing together a more extensive range of Toyota companies, the goal is to forge partnerships that help innovative companies scale globally, while broadening their interaction with Toyota businesses focusing on energy, circular economy, carbon neutrality, smart communities, inclusive mobility and more.
With over 80 years of experience, Toyota provides unparalleled resources, expertise, and a vast network to support and accelerate the development of cutting-edge solutions, ready to lead the market into the future of mobility.
ABOUT TOYOTA EUROPE DESIGN DEVELOPMENT – ED²
Toyota Europe Design Development (ED²) is located on the French Côte d’Azur, close to Nice, and is one of Toyota Motor Corporation’s eight design studios worldwide. The European design centre opened in 2000 and is responsible for many different aspects of design development, including exterior and interior vehicle design, colour, material and finishing (CMF), the production of models and design research.
ED² has contributed to many notable production cars, including the original first-generation Yaris, the Verso, the Avensis, the Toyota C-HR crossover, the fourth-generation Yaris (COTY’s 2021 Car of the year winner), and the Yaris Cross. The studio has also created several concept cars, such as the Lexus LF-SA, the Lexus UX Concept, the mobility concepts shown at the Tokyo Motor Show in 2019, the LF-30 Electrified and the Aygo X Prologue.
Toyota Group focuses on the movement of people, goods, information and energy. Together, Toyota Material Handling Design Center and ED² want to marry the automotive world and the world of logistics, with the ambition to rethink and question the mobility of goods, services and people in a holistic and systemic way. Goal is to optimise the flows of goods generated by our societies in a sustainable and ethical way, in order to achieve synchronised and seamless mobility.
ABOUT TOYOTA GROUP
The Toyota Group's history began with Sakichi Toyoda's invention of the Toyoda wooden hand loom in 1890. Sakichi Toyoda's success in developing automatic loom technology helped his son Kiichiro pursue his dream of making vehicles, inspired by the new mass production methods he saw in Europe and the US. In the 1930s, Kiichiro Toyoda established Toyota Motor Co., Ltd., setting out to shift the Toyota Group's focus. Ever since, Toyota Group has grown around the core mission of making people smile and contributing to society through monozukuri and invention.
Toyota Group comprises 17 companies involved in many other business activities besides the automotive and material handling sectors, including housing, financial services, communication, marine and biotechnology and afforestation.
To this day, Toyota Group constantly strives to improve the quality of people's lives by using our skills and advanced technologies to create great new products and services. Through innovation and passion, Toyota surpassed the boundaries of impossibility and brought numerous dreams to life.
Vision
Inventing our path forward, together
Attitudes
- Aim high and care deeply.
- Trust and uplift your colleagues.
- Endlessly improve your craft.
- Honesty first, integrity always.
- Connect and collaborate.
