nissan motors
Nissan Motors was founded in 1932 by Kenjiro Den, Rokuro Aoyama, Meitaro Takeuchi, and Yoshisuke Aikawa. The company is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. The current Chairman, CEO and Co-Chairman is Carlos Ghosn. Nissan employs more than 185,000 people and the company’s revenue reached $88 billion in 2007. Nissan is 44.4% owned by Renault SA of France as of calendar year 2008, but they have formed an alliance since 1999. Nissan previously manufactured vehicles under the Datsun name. Nissan is the third largest vehicle manufacturer in Japan and also makes Infiniti luxury vehicles.
Datsun was first established as a vehicle manufacturer in 1914, and the Nissan brand name was not used on vehicles until the 1930s. Since the company’s inception there have been more than a handful of company presidents and CEOs:
or 1933-1939 Yoshisuke Aikawa
or 1939-1942 Masasuke Murakami
or 1942-1944 Genshichi Asahara
or 1944-1945 Haruto Kudo
or 1945 Takeshi Murayama
or 1945-1947 Soji Yamamoto
or 1947-1951 Taichi Minoura
or 1951-1957 Genshichi Asahara
or 1957-1973 Katsuji Kawamata
or 1973-1977 Tadahiro Iwakoshi
1977-1985 Takashi Ishihara
or 1985-1992 Yutaka Kume
or 1992-1996 Yoshifume Tsuji
1996-2000 Yoshikazu Hanawa
or 2000-present Carlos Ghosn
Nissan’s presidents and CEOs have helped build the company into one of the world’s leading vehicle manufacturers and continue that tradition today. Nissan manufactures and distributes sports cars, compact cars and heavy-duty trucks around the world.
According to the Nissan website, the company has tons of manufacturing plants around the world. They are located at:
oJapan
– Oppama, Yokosuka, Kanagawa (Oppama Plant and Research Center)
– Kaminokawa, Tochigi (Tochigi Plant)
– Kanda, Fukuoka (Kyushu Plant)
– Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa (Yokohama Plant)
– Iwaki, Fukushima (Iwaki Plant)
– Hiratsuka, Kanagawa (Nissan Shatai Shonan Plant)
– Nagoya, Aichi (Atsuta and Eitoku Plants of Aichi Machine Industry)
– Matsusaka, Mie (Aichi Machine Industry Matsusaka Plant)
– Tsu, Mie (Tsu Plant of Aichi Machine Industry)
-Uji, Kyoto (Auto Works Kyoto)
– Ageo, Saitama (Nissan Diesel Motor, currently owned by Volvo Group)
– Samukawa, Kanagawa (Nissan Kohki)
– Zama, Kanagawa (Zama plant closed in 1995, currently Global Production Engineering Center and storage unit for its historical models)
or brazil
– São José dos Pinhais, Paraná
oIndonesia
– Cikampek, West Java
or iran
– Karaj, Tehran
oMalaysia
-Segambut, Kuala Lumpur
-Serendah, Selangor
or Mexico
– Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes
-Cuernavaca, CIVAC
Philippines
– City of Santa Rosa, Laguna
South Africa
-Rosslyn
or spain
-Barcelona
– Avila
oThailand
-Bangna, Samutprakarn
taiwan
-Taipei
or UK
– Sunderland, North East
or United States
– Izmir, TN
– Canton, Mississippi
-Decherd, Tennessee
Nissan Motors plans to start selling electric cars in 2012 and has been trying to develop hybrid cars and hybrid engine parts for the past two years. Nissan believes that the development of its own electric car and the growing popularity of alternatively powered cars will make its effort a success. The idea for the company to produce an electric car came from the current president and CEO of the company, Carlos Ghosn.