Skoda

?koda Auto is an automobile manufacturer in the Czech Republic. In 1991, it became a subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group.

Type
Private subsidiary of Volkswagen Group

Founded
1895 as Laurin & Klement

Founder(s)
V?clav Laurin and
V?clav Klement

Headquarters
Mlad? Boleslav, Czech Republic

Area served
Global
(except North America)

Key people
Reinhard Jung
Chairman of the Board of Directors
Hans Dieter P?tsch
Chairman of the Supervisory Board

Industry
Automotive industry

Products
Automobiles

Revenue
? ?8.5 billion (2007)

Profit
15.94 billion Koruna/$990 million (2008)

Employees
27,680 (2007)

Parent
Volkswagen Group

Website
?koda-Auto.com

Kia

Kia Motors, a subsidiary of Hyundai Kia Automotive Group, is South Korea’s 2nd largest automobile manufacturer with headquarters in Seoul, South Korea. Its CEO is Chung Eui-sun. The American arm is Kia Motors America. On October 20, 2006, Kia Motors America formally hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for its first US assembly plant in West Point, Georgia, at an initial cost of over $1 billion. Since 2005, Kia has started to focus on the European market and is currently the UK’s fastest growing car company and had various other successes in the European market.

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Type
Subsidiary

Founded
1944

Headquarters
Seoul, South Korea Main Plant Locations: Hwasung Plant, Kooni, South Korea; Sohari Plant, Nearest to Anyang, South Korea; Kwang-Ju Plant, Gwangju, South Korea; Seosan Plant, Seosan, South Korea; Slovakian Plant, ?ilina, Slovakia

Area served
International

Key people
Byung Mo Ahn: Group President and CEO Kia Motors America and Kia Motors Manufacturing Georgia

Industry
Automobile manufacturer

Products
Automobiles; over 1,000,000 sold last year.

Parent
Hyundai Kia Automotive Group

Website
kia.com

Hyundai Car

The Hyundai Motor Company, a division of the Hyundai Kia Automotive Group, is South Korea?s largest and the world?s fifth largest automaker in terms of units sold per year. Headquartered in Seoul, Hyundai operates the world?s largest integrated automobile manufacturing facility in Ulsan, which is capable of producing 1.6 million units annually. The Hyundai logo, a slanted, stylized ‘H’, is said to be symbolic of two people (the company and customer) shaking hands. Hyundai means “modernity” in Korean.

Type
Public (KRX: 005380,
LSE: HYUD)

Founded
1967

Founder
Chung Ju-Yung

Headquarters
Seoul, South Korea

Area served
International

Key people
Chung Mong-Koo, Chairman and CEO

Industry
Automobile manufacturer

Products
Automobiles

Revenue
? 27.384 Trillion (Approx USD $29.5 billion)

Net income
? 2.315 Trillion (Approx USD $2.5 billion)

Employees
c.68,000 worldwide

Parent
Hyundai Kia Automotive Group

Website
Hyundai-Motor.com

Bentley Motors Limited

Bentley Motors Limited is an English manufacturer of luxury automobiles and Grand Tourers. Bentley Motors was founded in England on 18 January 1919 by Walter Owen Bentley, known as W.O. Bentley or just “W.O.” He was previously known for his successful range of rotary aero-engines in World War I, the most famous being the Bentley BR1 as used in later versions of the Sopwith Camel. Since 1998 the company has been owned by the Volkswagen Group of Germany.

Type
Subsidiary of Volkswagen Group

Founded
18 January 1919

Founder
Walter Owen Bentley

Headquarters
Crewe, England, UK

Area served
Worldwide

Key people
Dr. Franz-Josef Paefgen, CEO

Industry
Manufacturing

Products
Cars

Employees
4000 (2006)

Parent
Volkswagen Group

Website
BentleyMotors.com