Production of Toyota Fortuner in Kazakhstan is an important step towards integration which demonstrates Japan's desire to participate in the implementation of President’s Address – Head of Toyota Motor Kazakhstan marketing dept
Such business cooperation will certainly have a positive impact on the economy of Kazakhstan, this has been said to our correspondent by Assylbek Aliyev, the Head of "Toyota Motor Kazakhstan" marketing department. - What effect will the new production have on Kazakhstan's economy? - The production will attract major technical developments and the Japanese engineers. Kazakhstan is not an industrialized country, but we are trying to gain experience from the leading tech giant. Head of the State Nursultan Nazarbayev in 2011 attended the summit in Japan and met with the Prime Minister. They discussed the idea of opening the production. Our government is actively involved in this project including the Agency on foreign investment (KAZNEX), the Ministry of Industry and New Technologies and other departments. The first car will be manufactured in June the current year. - Kazakhstan's market is rapidly developing. What is its priority for one of the largest Japanese companies? - "Toyota" attaches great importance to the market of Kazakhstan as a dynamically developing. It is very gratifying because "Toyota" is one of the largest industrial and financial corporations in the world. I personally talked with Akio Toyota - the grandson of the founder and current president of the Japanese corporation. He visited Kazakhstan in 2011. Akio Toyota said that Kazakhstan is one of the fastest growing and most important markets for Japan. Therefore, in the spring we will start the production of "Toyota Fortuner" in Kazakhstan.
