Indus Motor Company Limited ( ur, ), operating as Toyota Indus, is a Pakistani

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manufacturer which is a subsidiary of Japanese multinational automaker

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. It is based in

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, Pakistan. Founded in 1989, as a joint venture between

House of Habib The House of Habib () is a Pakistani conglomerate company based in Karachi, Pakistan. The group was founded by Habib Esmail in Bombay (British Raj) in 1841. It is a prominent shia Khoja business family in Pakistan.

, Toyota Tsusho and

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.Profile of Indus Motors Company
Business Recorder (newspaper), Published 14 March 2017, Retrieved 23 April 2020 Indus Motor is the authorized assembler and manufacturer of

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and

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vehicles, auto parts and accessories in Pakistan since 1 July 1990 at its manufacturing plant at Port Bin Qasim Industrial Zone, outside

. Indus Motor has employed 3,349 persons.

History

Indus Motor was incorporated as a public limited company in December 1989 and started commercial production in March 1993. Shares of the company are quoted on the Pakistan Stock Exchange. In March 2000, the company started production of

Daihatsu Cuore ''Cuore'', , the Italian-language Italian (''italiano'' or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. Together with Sardinian, Italian is the least divergent lang ...

in Pakistan which was based on the domestic Mira and features an 850-cc engine. In 2008, Toyota acquired 9.83 million shares from Overseas Investors AG and general public at the price of per share. In January 2012, the company halted Cuore production in Pakistan. Former Chairman of Indus Motor Company Ltd,

Ali Suleman Habib Ali Suleman Habib (1956 – 17 April 2020) was a Pakistani businessman who served as chairman of Indus Motors Company from 2009 to 2020. Education Habib graduated in mechanical engineering from the University of Minnesota and also attended ...

died on 18 April 2020.

Products

Cars

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* Toyota Corolla *

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Offroaders

Toyota Rush The is a mini SUV produced by the Japanese automobile manufacturer Daihatsu since 1997 as the successor to the F300 series Rocky. It was initially offered in both short and long-wheelbase configurations before the former stopped production in ...

Toyota Hilux The , stylized as HiLux and historically as Hi-Lux, is a series of pickup trucks produced and marketed by the Japanese automobile manufacturer Toyota. The majority of these vehicles are sold as pickup truck or cab chassis variants, although the ...

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Toyota Land Cruiser The (also sometimes spelled as LandCruiser) is a series of four-wheel drive vehicles produced by the Japanese automobile manufacturer Toyota. It is Toyota's longest running series of models. , the sales of the Land Cruiser totalled more than ...

Toyota Land Cruiser Prado The is a full-size four-wheel drive vehicle in the Land Cruiser range produced by the Japanese automaker Toyota. The Prado is one of the smaller vehicles in the Land Cruiser range. From 2009, the Prado is based on Toyota's J150 platform. In ...

Toyota Corolla Cross The is a compact crossover SUV (C-segment) produced by the Japanese automaker Toyota since 2020. Adopting the Corolla nameplate, it is positioned as a more practical and larger alternative to the C-HR and built on the same TNGA-C (GA-C) platf ...

Buses & Vans

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Toyota Coaster The is a single-decker minibus produced by Toyota Motor Corporation. It was introduced in 1969, with the second generation introduced in 1982, followed by the third generation in 1993 and the fourth generation in late 2016. In Japan, the Coa ...

References

External links

Indus Motor Company Limited

Indus Motor Company Detailed Company Financials

(Forbes.com website)
Toyota Global
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