The Honda Institute has received a South East Training Award at the recent NTA regional awards ceremony. The entry from The Honda Institute - Individual Skills Training (IST) for car technicians - was one of 16 finalists from over 1,000 entries, with Honda the only automotive company to reach the finals.<The Honda Institute has received a South East Training Award at the recent NTA regional awards ceremony. The entry from The Honda Institute - Individual Skills Training (IST) for car technicians - was one of 16 finalists from over 1,000 entries, with Honda the only automotive company to reach the finals.<The Honda Institute has received a South East Training Award at the recent NTA regional awards ceremony. The entry from The Honda Institute - Individual Skills Training (IST) for car technicians - was one of 16 finalists from over 1,000 entries, with Honda the only automotive company to reach the finals.
It's been a long time coming, but it was inevitable that the world's largest engine producer would make its own diesel.
Priory Motor Group is set to open a new £1.5m dealership on its existing Honda site in Cambridge.
Although the Automotive Academy announced by the Government will not be fully operational until later next year, BMW, Honda, Jaguar, Land Rover, MG Rover Group, Nissan, and Leyland Trucks are amongst those who have already appointed senior directors to sit on the Academy's Project Board.
The Honda Institute, the company's European centre for technical training and personnel development, has lent support to the motor vehicle Pre-Apprenticeship programme at a Hertfordshire school.
Honda is offering a free mower to anyone who orders a new car next weekend, (13 and 14 September) for delivery by the end of the month, as part of a special Honda test drive weekend.
Manchester-based Lookers has paid £2m for the property and assets of Savoy Honda Centre in Warrington.
Honda has finally moved to fill a key 'gap' in its product inventory for the European market – a home-produced diesel engine.
Honda's former president Nabuhiko Kawamoto has caused US media controversy by labelling his former company 'inferior' and 'headed downhill'.
Honda Motor Company today reported a 7.8 percent rise in operating earnings last year. But the carmaker has predicted a fall in profits this year amid renewed concerns about U.S. car demand.
Honda's new president and chief executive is to be Takeo Fukui, the carmaker's managing and representative director. He will take over in June.
Honda's 900 workers at its Swindon factory will lose around £63 as a result of the carmaker's decision to lay off an entire shift, according to the Amicus union.
Honda in Japan is to introduce a monthly monitoring system for electricity and other sources of energy at all domestic plants and dealerships by March 2004. The company has five car plants and 2,400 dealerships in Japan.
Honda has implicitly warned workers at its Swindon plant that it may pull out of the UK if there is no satisfactory solution of the on-going 2003 pay wrangle.
A novel TV ad using a 'domino' effect to emphasis the precision engineering that goes into each Honda Accord, gets its airing on ITV this Sunday after the Brazilian Grand Prix coverage.
In the latest move to reduce its £42.5m deficit on its final salary pension scheme, Honda UK has announced it is to pump £6.5m into the fund and increase its own annual contributions by over 2 per cent per year – equivalent to £2.5m.
Honda is trying to raise the age of retirement to 62 at its Swindon plant in order to prevent a crisis in its pension fund.
Honda will record a third consecutive record net profit in 2003/2004 – possibly exceeding $3.7bn – its president Hiroyuki Yoshino has predicted.
Honda's Swindon plant is preparing to build its one millionth car tomorrow – and it will be a silver CR-V destined for North America.
Former managing director of Ryland Honda has returned to north west retailing group Smith Knight Fay as brand director of its Toyota franchises – which covers the Culvers dealerships.