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...Honda makes more profit from motorcycles than cars, allowing it to weather downturns better than Nissan....
...Now Ford must decide whether to plough more money into Indian operations, begin manufacturing vehicles only for export, or to pull out of the country entirely....
...This article has been amended to clarify that Swindon is not the only manufacturing site in the EU for Honda, which has a motorcycle plant in Italy....
...Honda’s decision to close its Swindon plant has shaken confidence in the future of UK car manufacturing, but it has won acclaim from the Japanese carmaker’s investors....
...In less than a decade, Thailand has gone from a marginal producer of “big bikes” — loosely defined as motorcycles over 400cc or 500cc — to a leading exporter, mirroring the country’s success as an auto manufacturing...
...Honda began producing motorcycles in Pakistan from the mid-1960s and vehicles from 1994, while Toyota and Suzuki entered the market in the 1970s....
...Their job ends with developing, manufacturing and delivering safe vehicles to the mass market....
...This has been the experience of client Richard Pennycook, former chief executive of the Co-Op Group and former finance director at Morrisons supermarkets....
...At a time when the government is striving to burnish India’s credentials as a manufacturing centre, TVS and its peers provide encouraging examples....
...Industry executives say they are heartened by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Make in India drive, which aims to boost manufacturing investment through infrastructure investment....
...Mr Li, who began his career making cameras, then refrigerators, motorcycles and finally cars after getting a manufacturing licence from a Sichuan prison, admits the acquisition was never a sure thing....
...By bringing manufacturing back to Japan from China and Vietnam, it plans to raise the domestic production ratio of these motorcycles from 10 per cent to 80 per cent....
...In 2013, Yamaha showcased a prototype called the Motiv, which combines its motorbike technology with Mr Murray’s iStream manufacturing system that features a lightweight steel frame with low production costs...
...To recap the amendments to excise duty this February 2014, the Government had reduced the excuse duty on: • Small cars, motorcycles, scooters, three wheelers and commercial vehicles from 12 per cent to...
...The plant at Birmingham’s Fort Dunlop site, a UK manufacturing landmark, will fall silent as Dunlop owner Goodyear shifts production to France and Germany....
...Then, in 1993, he launched the first private Chinese company to make motorcycles....
...Mr da Silva may be able to upgrade that motorcycle after all....
...It has more than 100 affiliated companies spanning car and motorcycle parts manufacturing, plastics, media and entertainment, as well as retail operations through its Lotus supermarkets in Shanghai and its...
...It has more than 100 affiliated companies, spanning car and motorcycle parts manufacturing, plastics, media and entertainment, as well as retail operations through its Lotus supermarkets in Shanghai and...
...India’s largest motorcycle maker by sales, Hero MotoCorp, fell 3.5 per cent to Rs1,838.55 as investors forecasted similarly weak growth....
...Honda, meanwhile, said its Thai assembly plant would not reopen until April, resulting in more than 100,000 units of lost production, but plans to move some motorcycle production to the country from Japan...
...It produces most of Brazil’s motorcycles and bicycles, and a large number of its electronics....
...“As soon as possible we will definitely start with a manufacturing operation.” Things have changed a lot since Italian motorcycles dominated Indonesian streets in the 1970s and 1980s....
...But over the next 3 – 5 years, it hopes to set up a design centre to tailor the products to the Indian market, and bypass high import taxes by establishing local manufacturing facilities, Mike Dougherty,...
...But margin was hit by the strong dollar and restructuring costs at its main manufacturing plant in York, Pennsylvania....
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