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Hyundai Motor Co. Seoul (Sydkorea)

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Koncern: Hyundai Kia Group

Firmaet grundlagt: 1947

Produktion 19??: -

Internetadresse: worldwide.hyundai-motor.com.

Firmaets postadresse: Hyundai Motor Co., Yangjae-dong, Seocho-gu, Seoul, Sydkorea

The Hyundai Motor Company (HMC), a division of the Hyundai Kia Automotive Group, is South Korea's largest car maker. It is headquartered in Yangjae-dong, Seocho-gu, Seoul, South Korea. It is also the world's sixth largest car maker and operates the world's largest integrated automobile manufacturing facility in Ulsan, South Korea. The Hyundai logo, a slanted, stylized 'H', is symbolic of two people (the company and customer) shaking hands and its official slogan is "Drive your way".

Hyundai means "modernity" in the Korean language.

Chung Ju-yung founded the Hyundai Engineering and Construction Company in 1947. Hyundai Motor Company was later established in 1967. The company's first model, the Cortina, was released in cooperation with the Ford Motor Company in 1968. In 1975, the Pony, the first Korean car, was released, based on Japanese technology from Mitsubishi Motors. It was exported starting the next year.

In 1998, after a shake-up in the Korean auto industry caused by overambitious expansion and the Asian financial crisis, Hyundai acquired rival Kia Motors. In 2000, the company established a strategic alliance with DaimlerChrysler and severed its partnership with the Hyundai Group. In 2001, the Daimler-Hyundai Truck Corporation was formed. In 2004, however, DaimlerChrysler divested its interest in the company by selling its 10.5 percent stake for $900 million.

Hyundai has invested in manufacturing plants in the North America, Pakistan, China, India, and Turkey as well as research and development centers in Europe, North America, and Japan.

(kilde: Wikipedia)