Analysis of Global Top 10 Automotive Group Sales in the First Half of 2011 (Chinese)

Part I: Analysis of Global Top 10 Automotive Group Sales in the First Half of 2011 (I)

NO. 4: Hyundai-Kia Hyundai and Kia Motors have a tighter relationship with other auto company alliances. This article will count them as a large group. In 2010, the Group continued to maintain its position in the first half of this year after it rose to fourth place in global auto sales. The following is a separate look at the sales structure of Hyundai and Kia.

Hyundai: The proportion of overseas carmakers rises, and China becomes its largest market in the world. According to Hyundai Motor Company's news bulletin, about half of Hyundai’s globally-sold cars are produced from its Korean domestic factories (some are sold locally in Korea and some are exported ) However, the proportion of Korean-produced cars has decreased in recent years, while the proportion of overseas-produced cars has increased. In 2009, 48.1% of Hyundai Motor's global shipments (wholesale volume) were produced by overseas factories. In 2010, this proportion rose to 52.1% and further increased to 53.7% in the first half of this year.



Note: The export volume refers to the entire vehicle, excluding CKD.

From the sales volume (retail volume) shown in Hyundai Motor's financial report, China has become the world's largest market in the first half of this year. In the first half of 2010, although the Chinese auto market was in full swing, South Korea was still its largest market at the time. In the first half of 2011, the sales of Hyundai Motor in China reached 350,000, which exceeded its sales in South Korea 344,000, and its third largest market is the United States (323,000 vehicles).

In the three major factories in South Korea (Ulsan, Asan and Jeonju respectively), the Asan factory mainly manufactures medium and large passenger cars for export (this year the factory suspended production due to an employee's suicide in June). The factory mainly produces commercial vehicles. Overseas, the layout of Hyundai Motor is not widely covered by GM, Volkswagen, Toyota, etc. As of now, it only has factories in seven countries including the United States, the BRIC countries, the Czech Republic in Eastern Europe and the confluent point of Europe, Asia and Africa. Among them, the construction of factories in Brazil, the four BRIC countries, began in March this year, and it is expected to start production at the end of 2012; the factory in Russia will begin mass production of cars in January this year.

At present, Hyundai has factories in six overseas countries. The highest sales volume (indicating the volume) of cars is the Chinese factory Beijing Hyundai, followed by the Indian factory, and the third is the US factory. In the first half of last year, the sales volume of modern Indian plants was only 22,000 lower than that of Beijing Hyundai. In the first half of this year, the sales volume of Indian factories decreased slightly, while that of Beijing plants increased by 10.3%. The gap between the two increased to 60,000. In the first half of last year, Hyundai's US factory sales were only 50.2% of its Indian factory sales. This proportion rose to 57.1% in the first half of this year.

Kia: The fastest growing sales in the United States From the sales news announcement issued by Kia, the global sales volume in the first half of 2011 was 1,204,000. Its financial report shows that the global automobile shipments in the first half of this year were 1,241,000, and the retail volume was It was 1.203 million. The sales volume of Kia, which is based on 12.04 million vehicles and 1.203 million vehicles, is shown in Tables 10 and 11.

It can be seen that the first three major markets of Kia in the first half of this year are still South Korea, the United States, and China. Among them, sales growth in the United States is the fastest, with a year-on-year increase of 44.1% to 245,000 vehicles; it is the second fastest growth rate in China.

NO. 5: Ford - Asia Pacific and Africa's fastest growing Ford Motor Company's financial report showed that in the first half of 2011, its global sales volume was 2.92 million units, an increase of 2.1% over the same period last year (including Volvo). North America remains its largest regional market, accounting for 46.2% of its global sales; Europe, followed by 29.2%. Ford's North American sales increased by 25.2% year-on-year in 2010, and achieved a year-on-year increase of 12.0% in the first half of the year. Its European sales increased by only 0.3% year-on-year in 2010. The year-on-year growth rate for the first half of this year increased slightly to 2.2%.

Among Ford's business areas, the fastest-growing regions are Asia Pacific and Africa. In 2010, sales volume in the region increased by 38.7% year-on-year, and in the first half of this year it increased by 17.6% year-on-year.