Honda Motor Manufacturing

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

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Native name	本田技研工業株式会社
Romanized name	Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki-gaisha
Type	Public (K.K.)
Traded as	: : HMC TOPIX Core 30 Component
Industry	Conglomerate
Founded	Hamamatsu, Japan (October 1946 (1946-10), incorporated 24 September 1948; 69 years ago (1948-09-24))
Founder	Soichiro Honda Takeo Fujisawa
Headquarters	Minato, Tokyo, Japan
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Fumihiko Ike (Chairman) Takahiro Hachigo (President and CEO)
Products	Automobiles commercial vehicles luxury vehicles motorcycles Scooters electric generators water pumps lawn and garden equipment rotary tillers outboard motors robotics jet aircraft jet engines thin-film solar cells internavi (telematics)
Revenue	¥14.60 trillion (2016)
Operating income	¥503.3 billion (2016)
Net income	¥344.5 billion (2016)
Total assets	¥18.22 trillion (2016)
Total equity	¥6.76 trillion (2016)
Owner	Japan Trustee Services Bank (Trust) (6.46%) The Master Trust Bank of Japan (Trust) (4.71%) Mokusurei (3.09%) Meiji Yasuda Life (2.83%) Tokio Marine Nichido (2.35%) (3月年2014 currently)
Number of employees	208,399 (2016)
Divisions	Acura Honda Automobiles Honda Motorcycles
Subsidiaries	List Transportation American Honda Motor Company Acura Honda Aircraft Company Honda Performance Development Honda Automobile (China) Company (50%) Guangqi Honda Automobile (50%) Li Nian (Everus) Honda Seil Cars India Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India Dongfeng Honda (50%) Honda Spain Montesa Air Transportation Honda Airways Sports Honda Racing F1 Honda Racing Engines GE Honda Aero Engines (50%) Other Mobilityland (100%) International Honda Pakistan Honda Canada Inc. Honda Taiwan Honda UK ltd.
Website	Honda Worldwide: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Honda Motor Company, Ltd. (Japanese: 本田技研工業株式会社, Hepburn: Honda Giken Kōgyō KK, IPA: [honda] ( listen); /ˈhɒndə/) is a Japanese public multinational conglomerate corporation primarily known as a manufacturer of automobiles, aircraft, motorcycles, and power equipment.

Honda has been the world's largest motorcycle manufacturer since 1959, 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. Honda became the second-largest Japanese automobile manufacturer in 2001. Honda was the eighth largest automobile manufacturer in the world behind Toyota, Volkswagen Group, Hyundai Motor Group, General Motors, Ford, Nissan, and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles in 2015.