Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki-gaisha | Type | Public company | Traded as | TYO: 7267
NYSE: HMC | Industry | Automotive
Aviation
Telematics | Founded | Hamamatsu, Japan (September 24, 1948) | Founder(s) | Soichiro Honda
Takeo Fujisawa | Headquarters | Minato, Tokyo, Japan | Area served | Worldwide | Key people | Takanobu Ito (President, CEO and Representative Director) | Products | Automobiles
Motorcycles
Scooters
Electrical generators
Water pumps
Lawn and garden equipments
Tillers
Outboard motors
Robotics
Jet aircrafts
Jet engines
Thin-film solar cells
Internavi | Revenue | ¥7.948 trillion (2012)[1] | Operating income | ¥231.36 billion (2012)[1] | Net income | ¥211.48 billion (2012)[1] | Total assets | ¥11.780 trillion (2012)[1] | Total equity | ¥4.402 trillion (2012)[1] | Employees | 179,060 (2012)[2] | Divisions | Honda
Honda Motorcycles | Subsidiaries | List[show] | Website | world.honda.com |
Honda Motor Company, Ltd. (Honda Giken Kōgyō KK?, IPA: [honꜜda] ( listen); pron.: /ˈhɒndə/) 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,[3][4] as well as the world's largest manufacturer of internal combustion engines measured by volume, producing more than 14 million internal combustion engines each year.[5] In 2001, Honda became the second-largest Japanese automobile manufacturer.[6][7] Honda was the eighth largest automobile manufacturer in the world behind General Motors, Volkswagen Group, Toyota, Hyundai Motor Group, Ford, Nissan, and PSA in 2011.[8] * |
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, amongst others. Since 1986,