International Dealer News IDN 141 February/March 2018 | Page 15

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Honda European sales
revenue +29.5% April-Sept 2017
For the three months ended 30
September 2017 (the second
quarter of their 2017/18
financial year) Honda has
reported total global sales
revenue from its motorcycle
business of 510,109 m yen (3.75
bn euro), yielding a segment
profit of 68,520 yen (503 m
euro).
For the first six months of their
financial year, motorcycle sales
revenue was 1,018,649 m yen
(7.5 bn euro) for a 147,362 m
yen profit (1.08 bn euro).
In Europe the company reported
sales revenue up by +44.7
percent at 30,809 m yen for
their second quarter (226 m
euro), taking their six months
year-to date to + 29.5 percent
at 76,464 m yen (562 m euro).
Euro conversions are
approximate at 4th January
2018.
In other Honda news, the
company has celebrated the
10th anniversary of its
motorcycle production plant at
Iquitos City, located in the
Selva, Amazon rainforest area of
Peru. The company started
BS Battery
sponsors Zarco
BS Battery is very proud to announce
sponsorship of the French MotoGP
rider Johann Zarco. Zarco’s helmet
will display two stickers on the sides
with the BS Battery logo - he will also
wear a helmet exclusively covered
with BS Battery’s logo for one grand
prix during the 2018 season.
In 2017, 27 year-old Zarco
confirmed his reputation as one of
the up and coming new stars of the
future as ‘Best Rookie’ of the
MotoGP
championship,
best
independent rider, and he secured a
remarkable 6th place overall at the
end of the championship, with 3
podiums, 2 pole positions, and 4
fastest laps.
Zarco made his Grand Prix debut
with the WTR San Marino team in
the 125 cc World Championship.
Zarco then moved up to Moto 2 with
the JiR team in 2012 on board
Motobi bikes, finishing the season
tenth in the standings.
In 2013 he joined the Ioda Project
Racing team, riding a Suter, and
finishing ninth after two podiums.
The f ollowing year he finished sixth
for Caterham, scoring four podiums
and a pole. He won the Moto 2 title
with Ajo (8 wins, 14 podiums, 7
poles) and went on to successfully
defend his title in 2016 – becoming
the first rider to win back-to-back
intermediate titles in the Moto 2 era
(7 wins, 10 podiums, 7 poles).
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operations there in 2007 with
some 40 employees and today
has 120 people working there,
with cumulative motorcycle
production in the last 10 years
exceeding 300,000 PTW and
‘MotoKAR’ three-wheeler units.
Honda first started production
in Peru in 1975.
Based on its longstanding
commitment to “build products
close to the customer,” Honda
began motorcycle production in
Peru in 1975 in Trujillo in
northern Peru. In anticipation of
increasing demand for
motorcycles in Peru, Honda
established HSP, a new
production operation, in Iquitos
in 2006.
Meanwhile, Honda R&D Co.,
Ltd., the R&D subsidiary of
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., has
signed a 5-year joint research
and development contract with
SenseTime Group Limited, a
China-based IT company with
strengths in the area of AI
technologies.
Specifically the project will
evaluate and develop moving
object image recognition
technologies powered by deep
learning technology, currently
one of the most advanced AI
technologies. The joint research
project will combine
SenseTime’s moving object
recognition technologies with
Honda’s AI algorithms for scene
understanding, risk prediction
and action planning.
The two companies will develop
highly-sophisticated automated
driving technologies, which will
enable complex automated
driving in urban areas to
establish automated driving
technologies to “realise a
collision-free society.” The two
companies also plan to expand
their joint activities into the
area of robotics.
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