SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s largest automaker Hyundai Motor Group may consider building additional production facilities in the United States, but only when or if a future rise in demand there requires it to do so, group officials said Tuesday. The remarks came after foreign news outlets, citing Hyundai Motor Group President [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai Motor Group has set its sales target at 8.25 million cars this year, the group chairman said Monday. The annual target marks a 1.5 percent increase from the 2016 target of 8.13 million. South Korea’s largest automotive group has yet to release its actual sales for 2016, but [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Executives from Hyundai Motor Group have expressed concerns for 2017, mainly from the stagnant global automotive industry and a strong comeback from Japanese automakers buoyed by the low Japanese yen. During a seminar on Thursday outlining the global automotive industry prospects for 2017 hosted at company headquarters in southern [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai Motor Group is quickly expanding its Chinese operations, and along with it, its corporate social responsibilities. According to Beijing Hyundai Motor, a joint-venture between Beijing Automotive Group and Hyundai Motor Company, the Korean auto-group was given the highest CSR development index score this year among all automakers in [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai Motor Group affiliate Kia Motors is making rapid inroads in global automotive markets, introducing localized models, and broadening its eco-friendly product lines. The company announced on Thursday a 20.8 percent on-year increase in net profit for Q3. According to Vice President Han Cheon-su, by 2018 Kia will launch [...]
SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai Motor Group was warned by Korea’s Fair Trade Commission (FTC) on Thursday for missing the deadline for selling off its cross shareholdings. Hyundai and Kia acquired 8.81 million new shares after merging two of their subsidiary companies, Hyundai Steel and Hyundai Hysco, in July 2015. The additional shares [...]
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai Motor Group is extending its futuristic offerings beyond a recently-revealed wearable robot reminiscent of Iron Man. Following the latest photo releases of Iron Man look-a-like robot prototypes, Hyundai’s plans to develop advanced weaponry have also been revealed. The group’s subsidiaries, including Hyundai Motor, Kia Motor, Hyundai Mobis, Hyundai [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai Rotem Co., a train making unit of Hyundai Motor Group, said Thursday that it has completed the construction of a plant in Brazil that will serve as its main foothold to advance into the Latin American market. The plant on 150,000 square meters of land in Sao Paulo has [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai Motor Group is expected to recruit more than 10,000 workers this year in line with its long-term employment strategy, industry and company sources said Monday. The recruitment plan follows 9,500 workers recently employed by South Korea’s second-largest conglomerate, which holds Hyundai Motor Co. and Kia Motors Corp. under [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai Motor Group’s chairman said Monday that its two carmakers aim to produce and sell 8.13 million cars this year, lowering its annual target from a year earlier due to tough market conditions at home and abroad. This is a downgrade from the previous year when the group, which [...]