McDonald's  Toyota  Opel Source: Kantar/Strategies France's "Best" Global Brands 2015 by value Louis Vuitton (LVMH) ($22.3bn)  Danone ($8.6bn) Hermes ($10.9bn)  Cartier (Richemont) ($7.

Toyota made steady progress in the year to March 2016. Revenues hit a new high of of Y28.4 trillion, but the US$ equivalent fell to around $237bn at average rates (from around $248bn the year before).

well ahead of Ford on 2.6m. Toyota, Fiat Chrysler, Honda and Nissan held the next four places, and the rest of the top 15 ranking remained unchanged with one exception: Volkswagen slipped back from 10th

from the group's other brands in a style similar to Toyota/Lexus, Nissan/Infiniti and Honda/Acura. Most of the other main components of the old Daewoo group now operate as independent entities, in most

the world's #3 selling model (behind Toyota's Corolla and RAV4), followed by the Ranger pick-up, Focus compact and Explorer SUV. In the US alone, the F-Series has been the local top-seller for 40 years,

2 brand in the US behind Ford, and ahead of Toyota. Recent increases in sales in the US came despite the widely publicised role that Chevrolet vehicles in general played in a defect scandal which damaged

P&G, Toyota, and until recently General Mills) was for many years - let's be honest - only occasionally distinguished by its imaginative approach. There have been some notable exceptions, but the creative

primarily Toyota and Canon. In early 2012, Dentsu America also absorbed New York independent ML Rogers for an undisclosed sum. However, Dentsu America was itself eventually absorbed into acquired agency

Formerly the global #3 behind GM and Toyota, it was overtaken in unit sales by Volkswagen Group in 2008, and then by Hyundai Kia Automotive Group in 2010, and also by the combined Renault-Nissan Alliance.

narrowly behind Mercedes-Benz and a little further behind Toyota. Millward Brown's Brandz survey 2016 ranked BMW as the world's #33 brand, with an estimated value of $26.8bn, the #2 car brand ahead of