2. HONDA SPECIFICATIONS
TyPE Public company
•Automotive
INDuSTRy •Aviation
FOuNDED 24 September 1948
•Soichiro Honda
FOuNDER(S) •Takeo F ujisawa
HEADquARTERS Minato, Tokyo, Japan
AREA SERvED Worldwide
Takanobu Ito (President, CE &
O,
KEy PEOPlE Representative Director)
4. REvENuE ¥7.948 trillion (2012)
OPERATINg INCOmE ¥231.36 billion (2012)
NET INCOmE ¥211.48 billion (2012)
TOTAl ASSETS ¥11.780 trillion (2012)
TOTAl EquITy ¥4.402 trillion (2012)
EmPlOyEES 179,060 (2012)
•Acura
SubSIDIARIES •Li Nian (Everus)
•Honda Aircraft Company
WEbSITE world.honda.com
5. SOmE FACTS AbOuT HONDA
• Honda Motor Company, Ltd. is a Japanese public
multinational corporation primarily known as a manufacturer
of automobiles and motorcycles.
• Honda has been the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer
since 1959 as well as the world's largest manufacturer of
internal combustion enginesmeasured by volume, producing
more than 14 million internal combustion engines each year.
• Honda surpassed Nissan in 2001 to become the second-
largest Japanese automobile manufacturer.
• As of August 2008, Honda surpassed Chrysler as the fourth
largest automobile manufacturer in the United States.
6. • Honda was the seventh largest automobile manufacturer in
the world behind Toyota, General Motors, Volkswagen AG,
Hyundai Motor Group, Ford, and Nissan in 2010.
• Honda was the first Japanese automobile manufacturer to
release a dedicated luxury brand, Acura, in 1986.
• Aside from their core automobile and motorcycle businesses,
Honda also manufactures garden equipment, marine engines,
personal watercraft and power generators,.
• Since 1986, Honda has been involved with artificial
intelligence/robotics research and released their ASIMO robot
in 2000.
• They have also ventured into aerospace with the
establishment of GE Honda Aero Engines in 2004 and the
Honda HA-420 Honda Jet, scheduled to be released in 2012
7. HONDA IN INDIA
• Honda comes to India as a Joint-Venture between the Hero
Group and Honda Motor Company was established in 1984 as
the Hero Honda Motors Limited At Dharuhera India.
• Hero is the brand name used by the Munjal brothers for their
flagship company Hero Cycles Ltd , Honda share 26% stake in
company.
• But after 26 years of bonding with the motorcycle users in
India, Hero Honda was finally splited in Dec 16, 2011.
• Some remarkable products of this JV are: HERO HONDA
ACHEIvER , HERO HONDA AmbITION , HERO HONDA CbZ
, CbZ XTREmE , HERO HONDA CD 100 , HERO HONDA CD
DAWN, HERO HONDA glAmOuR , HERO HONDA HuNK ,
HERO HONDA KARIZmA AND mANy mORE.