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| Company type | Subsidiary |
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| Honda Taiwan | |
| Industry | Automotive |
| Predecessor | Joint venture withSanyang Motor |
| Founded | 8 February 2002; 23 years ago (2002-02-08) |
| Headquarters | Zhongshan,, |
Number of locations | 2 |
Area served | Taiwan |
| Brands | Honda |
| Parent | Honda Motor Co. Ltd. |
| Website | www.honda-taiwan.com.tw |
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| Chinese | 台灣本田股份有限公司 | ||||||||||||||
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Honda Taiwan Co., Ltd. (Chinese:台灣本田股份有限公司), a wholly owned subsidiary ofHonda Motor Co. Ltd., was established in February 2002 shortly after discontinuing their local partnership withSanyang Motor.[1] It started productions and sales ofCR-V in January 2003 then expanded to include theAccord (November 2003),Civic (2006), andFit (2008). On November 11, 2008 Honda Taiwan celebrated assembling its 100,000th vehicle.[2] In 2009, Honda Taiwan employed 740 people.[3]
Honda products for the Taiwanese market had been assembled and distributed by local motorcycle manufacturerSanyang Industrial Co. for 41 years when the announcement was made. Taiwan was where the first overseas Honda automobiles were built, when theN600 andTN360 began assembly in 1969.[4][5] Honda moved to create its own subsidiary in order to "increase competitiveness" and to "reduce production costs."[6] The fact that Sanyang (under theSYM label) had become a successful motorcycle producer in its own right, often competing directly with Honda products, may also have had something to do with the decision.[6] In 2001, their last full year with Sanyang as a distributor, Honda held only a 1.5% market share in Taiwan. In 2007, Honda passedFord Lio Ho to gain fourth place in the Taiwanese automobile market[7] and for the first six months of 2010, Honda's market share had gone up to 8.3% with the fourth place consolidated.[8]
Pingtung City manufacturing plant producesHonda CR-V,Honda HR-V, andHonda Fit.
Hsinchu was former location of plant that manufactured both the Accord and Fit.
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