KIA Motors Corporatio Kia surpasses 1 million units in annual global sales
Monday, August 16th, 2010KIA Motors Corporation’s global sales figures for passenger cars (export sales, domestic sales and sales from overseas plants), recreational
vehicles (RVs) and commercial vehicles for the first half of 2010 easily surpassed the 1 million unit count. This marks a healthy 34.1% year-on-year growth over the first half of 2009. Hyoung-Keun Lee, President of Kia Motors Corporation, said, “I am encouraged to see
sales of Kia vehicles around the world eclipse the 1 million unit annual mark faster than ever before in our company’s history.” China experienced the highest gain of 75.6% based on sales of 170,977 units to date in 2010. The remaining regions have all showed cumulative strong double digit year-on-year sales increases: 57.3% in general markets** (214,319 units sold), 26.7% in Europe* (194,664 units sold), 18.5% in Korea (228,189 units sold) and 16.0% in North America. Read the full article on the KIA sales figures on the KIA Motors Menlyn website.
