Toyota Motor’s Kenyan unit announced that it expects to see its market share to grow to 27% in 2012, from 26% in 2011.

The company will start assembling its Hilux and Hino models in Kenya in 2012, said Managing Director Hylton Bannon.

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“By bringing production facilities to Kenya, we will lower our costs and it will enable us to be a lot more competitive,” Bannon said.

Toyota has invested US$2m for an outlet in the Nairobi suburb of Westlands and plans to invest another US$2m to open another one in the Gigiri area in 2012, to improve customer service.

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