Toyota Material Handling Australia (TMHA) says it has retained overall national forklift market leadership for the fifth consecutive year.
It extended its uninterrupted dominance of the internal-combustion counter-balance forklift market to 27 years, achieving a 30.1 per cent market share.
Official Australian Industrial Truck Association (AITA) industry sales results just released for 2013 show TMHA delivered in excess of 4,700 forklifts in 2013, a total market share of 28.6 per cent. This is said to be over 300 forklifts ahead of Toyota's nearest rival.
Battery-electric forklifts accounted for 54.4 per cent of Toyota forklift deliveries.
On a state by state basis, Toyota was number one in forklifts in New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania and Western Australia.
TMHA executive vice president and COO Steve Takacs said the company would build on its 2013 results with the launch of a new product in the first quarter of this year.
"The new product we are launching this year is the fruit of Toyota's unequalled investment in forklift research and development."
