Kia CorporationKia Corporation changed based in May 1944 and is Korea’s oldest producer of motor automobiles. From humble origins making bicycles and motorcycles, Kia has grown – as a part of the dynamic, worldwide Hyundai-Kia Automotive Group – to turn out to be the world’s 5th biggest car producer.
Today, Kia produces extra than 1. four million automobiles every 12 months at 14 production and meeting operations in 8 countries. These automobiles are offered and serviced thru a community of extra than 3,000 vendors and sellers overlaying 172 countries. The Corporation has extra than 40,000 personnel and annual sales of extra than US$17 billion.
In its ‘domestic‘ USA of South Korea, Kia operates 3 important car meeting plants – the Hwasung, Sohari and Kwangju facilities – plus a world-elegance study and improvement centre using 8,000 technicians at Namyang and a devoted environmental R&D centre. The Eco-Technology Research Institute, close to Seoul, is running on hydrogen fuel-molecular automobiles for the destiny in addition to modern-day quit-of-existence car recycling technology and processes. Kia spends 6% of its annual sales on R&D and additionally runs studies centres withinside the USA, Japan and Germany.
Kia Europe
Kia Europe (KME) is the European income, advertising and marketing and provider department of Kia Corporation (KMC), primarily based totally in Seoul, South Korea. With its purpose-constructed headquarters placed withinside the coronary heart of Frankfurt, Germany, KME’s group of workers is effectively run and exceedingly motivated. The organization's shape encourages people to make essential contributions to its operations and the multi-cultural dynamic is domestic to extra than 26 special nationalities.
Kia’s European headquarters is likewise domestic to Kia’s Design Centre, which has contributed to creating Kia as an exceedingly ideal emblem in Europe, with merchandise which has its exceptional layout signature.
Since 2003, Kia’s product variety in Europe has elevated from overlaying simply 35% of marketplace segments to extra than 80% today. That growth has helped Kia’s European income boom every 12 months account that 2008, accomplishing income throughout Western and Eastern Europe of 385,000 devices in 2015.
Costing € 1.6 billion to layout and construct, Kia’s state-of-the-artwork European production facility in Žilina, Slovakia, now caters for nearly 54% of European calls for Kia’s large product variety. Kia’s Žilina facility is domestic to European manufacturing of the best-promoting Sportage crossover SUV, Venga compact MPV and cee’d version family (incorporating the cee’d five-door hatch, pro_cee’d 3-door and cee’d Sportswagon).
The facility, which produced its first car – the cee’d – on the quit of 2006, can produce extra than 300,000 motors annually. In 2015, Kia proudly introduced the manufacturing of the one-millionth cee’d version to roll off the Žilina manufacturing line. In the identical 12 months, the manufacturing facility produced extra than 100,000 devices of the Kia Sportage, breaking the version’s annual manufacturing record.
