redelk
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posted June 07, 2002 09:54 AM
Motorcycle 2001 Annual reports
This might be interesting to some of you. This information comes from each of the manufacturer's annual reports. For the Japanese companies, I used today's exchange rate to convert yen to US dollars. These figures are of total net sales for 2001 (year ending 3/2001) and includes ALL of their various divisions.
Honda - $51,948,528,641
Suzuki - $12,861,711,833
Kawasaki - $8,522,750,856
Yamaha - $7,109,972,655 (not counting the "music division")
H-D - $3,363,414,000 (just for comparison purposes)
Honda, in world wide motorcycle sales alone, almost topped KHI's total sales. Honda reported $6,471,234,182 world wide and $2,086,703,714 in North America alone.
Kawasaki's world wide motorcycle sales (which like Honda, also includes ATVs and watercraft) just bearly beat out Honda's North America sales with a total of $2,216,979,548. Yamaha's world wide motorcycle sales (which does NOT include watercraft) is $3,564,339,713.
Even though the "music division" of Yamaha is completely independent of the "motor division", you'd need to combine them to be fair in total sales numbers. If you did that, it would put Yamaha on par with Suzuki.
KHI's total net worth including all of their assets and properties is $10,068,370,000. Honda claims their total assets are less then their net sales at $45,741,800,000.
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ROCKET J
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posted June 07, 2002 11:51 AM
Hmmm...
I would of thought that KHI was bigger than Honda. I know that Kawasaki is the baby in the motorcycle world, but I thought their overall portfolio was better than that.
By the way, GM had an off year last year. Their net sales were only 177,260,000,000.00. If it was legal to do so, I'm sure they would buy Honda, Toyota and anybody else that got in their way.
Japanese bikes forever, Japanese cars, never!
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