Toyota Industries Corporation (“Toyota Industries”) has the intention to reorganize its warehouse automation business—which provides automated systems for warehousing, storage, retrieval (picking), and other logistics processes at warehouses, fulfillment centers, and factories.
Toyota Industries is exploring establishing regional operating companies in the United States and Europe, unifying all warehouse automation–related organizations in these regions, including subsidiaries, under the “Toyota Automated Logistics” with the regional name. Through this contemplated reorganization, Toyota Industries aims to strengthen group-wide collaboration and enhance its global warehouse automation business.
The new organizational structure is aimed to begin operations in April 2026, subject to the completion of the required information and/or consultation of the relevant local works councils in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. Under the envisaged new framework, the Group will focus on the growth of its warehouse automation business through faster, group-wide decision-making. The Toyota Industries Group’s global logistics automation business is driven primarily by its Dutch subsidiary Vanderlande Industries Holding B.V. (“Vanderlande”), which handles large-scale automation systems for airports, parcel handling, and warehouse automation; its German subsidiary viastore Intralogistics Holding GmbH (“viastore”), which engages in small to medium-scale warehouse automation; and its U.S. subsidiary Bastian Solutions, LLC (....)