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Honda Motor Company, Limited (本田技研工業株式会社, Honda Giken Kōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha, Honda Technology Research Institute Company, Limited) listenⓘ, shortened to Honda is a multinational corporation, engine manufacturer and engineering corporation headquartered in Japan.
Company type | Public TYO: 7267 NYSE: HMC |
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Industry | Automobile & Truck manufacturer & Motorcycle |
Founded | September 24, 1948 |
Headquarters | Tokyo, Japan |
Key people | Soichiro Honda, Founder Takeo Fukui, CEO |
Products | automobiles, trucks, motorcycles, scooters, ATVs, electrical generators, robotics, marine equipment, jets and jet engines, and lawn and garden equipment. Honda and Acura brands. |
Revenue | $94.24 billion USD (2007)[1] |
$5.0 billion[1] USD (2006) | |
Number of employees | 167,231 (2007) |
Website | Honda.com |
The company manufactures automobiles and motorcycles, trucks, scooters, robots, jets and jet engines, ATV, water craft, electrical generators, marine engines, lawn and garden equipment, and aeronautical and other mobile technologies. Honda's line of luxury cars are branded Acura in North America and China. More recently they have ventured into mountain bikes.
Honda is the 5th largest automobile manufacturer in the world as well as the largest engine-maker in the world, producing more than 14 million internal combustion engines each year.[citation needed]
Honda is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. Their shares trade on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange, as well as exchanges in Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Kyoto, Fukuoka, London, Paris and Switzerland. American Honda Motor Co. is based in Torrance, California. Honda Canada Inc. is headquartered in the Scarborough district of Toronto, Ontario, and is building new corporate headquarters in Markham, Ontario, scheduled to relocate in 2008. It was originally planned to be located in Richmond Hill, Ontario, but delays led them to look elsewhere.[2]Hero Honda, a joint venture between India's Hero Group and Honda, is the largest manufacturer of two wheelers in the world. Honda of Canada Manufacturing is based in Alliston, Ontario. Honda has also created joint ventures around the world, such as Honda Siel Cars India Ltd, Hero Honda Motorcycles India Ltd, Dongfeng Honda Automobile Company in China and Honda Atlas Cars Pakistan.