Suzuki GB has announced plans for the development of a new 15,400 sq m national parts, training and technical centre at Milton Keynes. The facility will also handle Suzuki motorcycles and marine products.

The £12m facility will open in the second half of 2005. Suzuki GB's administrative HQ administrative HQ including the car, motorcycle and marine sales and marketing departments, finance and IT, will remain in Crawley, West Sussex, where the company has been based for the past 22 years. When its lease their expires in 2007, the HQ will relocate locally, rather than to Milton Keynes alongside the parts and training hub.