Profile
Toyota Industries Corporation was founded in 1926 to manufacture and sell automatic looms(weaving machines) invented by Sakichi Toyoda. In the ensuing years, Toyota Industries extended
the scope of its business domains to encompass textile machinery, automobiles (vehicles, engines,
car air-conditioning compressors), materials handling equipment, electronics and logistics. Withproduction bases in North America, Europe and Asia, including Japan, China and India, as well
as a worldwide sales network, mainly in its Materials Handling Equipment and Textile Machinery
segments, the operations of the Toyota Industries Group span the globe.

Toyoda Type G Automatic Loom Certified as
Mechanical Engineering Heritage
In 2007, the first model of the non-stop shuttle-change Toyoda automatic
loom, Type G, was certified as a Mechanical Engineering Heritage asset byThe Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers. The Mechanical Engineering
Heritage designation is aimed at carefully preserving historic mechanicalengineering-related assets and passing them down to future generations.
The first model of the Type G automatic loom is displayed at the Toyota
Commemorative Museum of Industry and Technology in Nagoya, AichiPrefecture.

Definition of Terms“Fiscal 2008” refers to the fiscal year ending March 31, 2008, and other fiscal years are referred to in a corresponding manner. All references to the “Company” herein are to
Toyota Industries Corporation, and references to “Toyota Industries,” “Toyota Industries Group” or the “Group” herein are to the Company and its 165 consolidated subsidiaries.

Cautionary Statement with Respect to Forward-Looking Statements
This semiannual report contains projections and other forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. The use of the words “expect,” “anticipate,” “estimate,”“forecast,” “plan” and similar expressions is intended to identify such forward-looking statements. Projections and forward-looking statements are based on the current
expectations and estimates of Toyota Industries regarding its plans, outlook, strategies and results for the future. All such projections and forward-looking statements
are based on management’s assumptions and beliefs derived from the information available to it at the time of producing this report and are not guarantees of future
performance. Toyota Industries undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future eventsor otherwise. Therefore, it is advised that you should not rely solely upon these projections and forward-looking statements in making your investment decisions. You should
also be aware that certain risks and uncertainties could cause the actual results of Toyota Industries to differ materially from any projections or forward-looking statements
discussed in this report. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the following: (1) reliance on a small number of customers, (2) product development
capabilities, (3) intellectual property rights, (4) product defects, (5) price competition, (6) reliance on suppliers of raw materials and components, (7) environmental regulations,(8) success or failure of strategic alliances with other companies, (9) exchange rate fluctuations, (10) share price fluctuations, (11) effects of disasters, power blackouts andother incidents, (12) latent risks associated with international activities and (13) retirement benefit liabilities.