With pressure mounting to achieve its sales targets in 2013, where else to look for buyers but China, the largest automotive market in the world?

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Although, not all drugs surpassed expectations as Nuvigil, their new sleep disorder drug intended to cushion sales once blockbuster sleep drug Provigil faces generic competition, failed to achieve growth targets.

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Dion Corbett, spokesperson for Toyota, Japan's biggest carmaker, said the slump in sales meant that its sales targets for China might be "very difficult to achieve".

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