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  Fuji cuts ties with GM, joins Toyota - Boston.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Fuji Heavy said on Wednesday that it will dissolve its alliance with General Motors Corp and that Toyota will buy an 8.7 percent stake in the Subaru maker from the struggling U.S. car giant.
Analysts said the tie-up would enable Toyota to tap Fuji Heavy's underutilized factories, notably in the United States, and some key technologies such as advanced lithium ion batteries and all-wheel-drive powertrain, for which Subaru is best known.
Fuji Heavy said it would buy 11.5 percent, or 90 million, of its own shares -- all but 1 million held by GM -- for a maximum 57.6 billion yen.
www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2005/10/05/toyota_to_buy_87_pct_in_fuji_heavy   (1021 words)

  
 Nikkei Business   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Fuji Heavy Industries itself will buy 90 million of its shares that are currently owned by GM and others for 57.6 billion yen or less on the stock market.
Mitsui was considering a bold plan to buy Fuji Heavy Industries' shares from the GM group for 100 billion yen and make inroads directly into the automobile market by becoming the largest shareholder of the automaker.
Fuji Heavy Industries is known as an "automaker with great pride in its technology" that dislikes intervention from other companies.
nikkeibp.jp /wcs/leaf/CID/onair/nbe/features/403794   (1359 words)

  
 Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. - Company Profile - Insurance Business Review
Fuji Heavy Industries is engaged in the manufacture, sale, repair, and leasing of automobiles and transportation-related products.
We at Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. consider the winning of this award to be a firm appreciation of Subaru's unique car-developing philosophy, pursuing "the value that cars should genuinely possess while ascertaining accurately the needs of the times" based on customer-oriented mind simultaneously.
Fuji Heavy Industries is engaged in the manufacture, sale, repair and leasing of automobile and transportation-related products.
www.insurance-business-review.com /companyprofile.asp?guid=9C88C906-9153-463D-9F24-DAAD30B568CC   (2899 words)

  
 SUBARU.COM : ABOUT : FUJI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd., (FHI), traces its corporate lineage back to Nakajima Aircraft Company, which was founded in 1917.
Fuji's first car, the 1958 Subaru 360 Minicar, utilized a variety of new technologies.
Industrial Products: This division produces Robin brand equipment including generators, water pumps and engines for industrial, agricultural and recreational applications with main markets in the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
www.subaru.com /common/about/about_fhi.jsp   (501 words)

  
 Subaru Maker Says New B9 Tribeca Could Help Boost 2005 Sales | American International Automobile Dealers |   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Japan’s Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd., the maker of Subaru cars, said on Friday it expects its global auto sales to rise a mere 0.2 percent in 2005 from the previous year, as a weak dollar weighs on its crucial North American sales.
He said Fuji Heavy would strengthen its "soft side" such as sales operations and services to cope with changes in economic and other conditions, such as an incentives war in the United States, to close in on the 2006/07 sales target.
Fuji Heavy plans to shrink incentives in 2005, which were at around $1,300 per unit in the previous year, and to increase sales through better marketing, the firm said.
www.aiada.org /article.asp?id=31436   (633 words)

  
 Green Car Congress: Fuji Heavy Acquires UltraCap Business from its Partner
Fuji Heavy Industries (makers of Subaru) has purchased the Electric Double Layer Capacitor (ultracapacitor) business from Kanebo Ltd for an estimated ¥100 million (approximately US$900,000), according to reports in the Japanese business press.
Fuji and Kanebo jointly began developing the capacitor technology in 2002 and Kanebo has decided to sell its stake in the project in an effort to turn around its mainline business.
Fuji Heavy Industries apparently is hopeful that its battery business will become a new source of revenue.
www.greencarcongress.com /2005/06/fuji_heavy_acqu.html   (364 words)

  
 Eclipse and FHI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Fuji Heavy Industries, globally branded as SUBARU, to manufacture wings for Eclipse 500 and license use of friction stir welding
Fuji Heavy Industries is a global manufacturer of transportation and aerospace related products and the maker of SUBARU automobiles.
The origin of Fuji Heavy Industries is back in Nakajima Aircraft Laboratory founded in 1917.
www.apvco.com /eclipse.htm   (703 words)

  
 Toyota, Subaru May Tie Up in Hybrid Cars | American International Automobile Dealers |   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
A spokesman at Fuji Heavy said that although the company had not entered formal talks with Japan’s top automaker, there was a "very high chance" that Toyota’s hybrid system would be the best match for its vehicles.
The Fuji Heavy spokesman said his company was still studying internally what type of cooperation, if any, it would need for its hybrid vehicles.
Toyota President Fujio Cho and Fuji Heavy President Kyoji Takenaka are expected to hold talks soon on the matter, which had been discussed on a working level since last year, it said.
www.aiada.org /article.asp?id=32492&cat=Industry   (621 words)

  
 Autonet.ca - Subaru 360 to Outback H6: Back in 1917, Chikuhei Nakajima founded Japan’s first private aircraft ...
Fuji Sangyo became 12 different companies in 1950, but this was followed by the formation of Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. in 1953 to once more build production aircraft.
Fuji completed their first Japanese built jet aircraft, the T-i Jet Trainer, in 1957 and went on to build the company’s first automobile, the 360, in 1958.
Another industry first appeared in 1972 with the introduction of the world’s first mass-produced four-wheel-drive passenger car.
www.autonet.ca /DriverSource/Stories.cfm?StoryID=4768   (1007 words)

  
 Subaru News
Fuji Heavy Industries (FHI), the company behind the Subaru brand, intends to manufacture 571,000 vehicles globally in 2002, up 0.4% on 2001.
Fuji Heavy Industries, the Japanese industrial group that produces and sell Subaru cars and is 20% owned by General Motors, beat all expectations in the first half of fiscal 2001/02 with a 32% YOY increase in worldwide operating profit to Y43.8 billion (US$357 million).
Fuji Heavy Industries wants to substantially boost its presence in the Australia, the firm's biggest export market after the United States.
members.aol.com /nv1z/SubyNews.html   (576 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Industrial Machinery covers motors, machinery for agricultural, forestry and constructional use, as well as other machinery and equipment.
Fuji Heavy Industries is comprised of 117 subsidiaries and 10 associated companies.
Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd.: Business description, financial summary, 3yr and interim financials, key statistics/ratios and historical ratio analysis.
today.reuters.com /stocks/overview.aspx?ticker=7270.T   (390 words)

  
 Fuji Heavy Industries And Lithium Ion Batteries | BatteriesIX.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. unveiled an electric minicar concept model on Thursday that uses high-performance lithium-ion batteries...
Fuji Heavy on its part is considering supplying Toyota technology with lithium-ion batteries it has developed...
Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. unveiled an electric minicar concept model on Thursday that.
www.batteriesix.info /batteries/fuji-heavy-industries-and-lithium-ion-batteries.html   (1134 words)

  
 Ward's Auto World: Fuji Heavy Industries - 1987 International State of the Industry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd., producer of Subaru cars, plans to attack both the low end and upscale segments of the U.S. market this year with a new minicar and more powerful versions of the XT Coupe sports car.
Long a top producer of practical, low-cost cars whose 4-wheel-drive option enjoys much popularity among the snow-bound, Fuji now is pushing hard to expand its appeal to a broader spectrum of buyers while hanging onto its image as a 4wd innovator.
Fuji also reportedly slates a 1987 launch for a new 2.7L flat-6 (horizontally opposed 6-cyl.) in its XT Coupe.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3165/is_v23/ai_4660765   (469 words)

  
 Toyota to provide Subaru with hybrid vehicle technology
Toyota plans to supply its hybrid power system to Fuji Heavy, which will use it to make hybrids a mainline product in the North American market, which accounts for 35 per cent of its group sales, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun said.
Fuji Heavy for its part is considering supplying to Toyota the technology on lithium-ion batteries it has developed with electronics maker NEC for use in hybrid vehicles, the economic daily said without citing sources.
US auto giant General Motors, the top shareholder in Fuji Heavy with a 20 per cent stake, has formed a partnership with German-US car manufacturer DaimlerChrysler to jointly develop hybrid vehicle technology.
www.industrysearch.com.au /news/viewrecord.asp?id=16010   (350 words)

  
 FAQs
Fuji Heavy Industries is the successor to Nakajima Aircraft, which was originally established as the Aircraft Research Laboratory established in 1917 by Chikuhei Nakajima (1884-1949) in Gunma Prefecture (approximately 70km north of Tokyo), at the site of Subaru's present manufacturing base.
As Fuji Heavy Industries had just taken over 5 of 12 companies resulting from the breakup of the old Nakajima Aircraft Company, Kita saw this unique name as the ideal symbol to express the unification of these 5 Fuji companies -- "Subaru".
Subaru Research And Development, Inc., a subsidiary of Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd., is located in Ann Arbor, MI and is involved with advanced design and conducts prototype and emissions testing.
forums.nasioc.com /faqs.htm   (5180 words)

  
 Green Car Congress: Toyota, Fuji Heavy (Subaru) Hybrid Partnership?
Fuji Heavy’s output of vehicles is only about 590,000—too low a volume for it to cost-effectively develop its own hybrid technology, which is the path it had been taking.
Fuji Heavy has some concerns about the technology, prefers the Toyota system, and is using timing as a face-saving excuse.
According to AutoWeek, Subaru parent Fuji Heavy Industries will market a new manganese lithium-ion battery hybrid battery with an estimated life of 15 years or 150,000 miles, in contrast to eight years or 100,000 for that of the Toyota...
www.greencarcongress.com /2005/02/toyota_fuji_hea.html   (579 words)

  
 McLellan's Automobile Literature :: Out-of-Print Books -- Subaru
"Fuji Heavy Industries -- in the air -- on the ground -- on the sea.
THIS IS FUJI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd., 1972: A review of products used to introduce customers to Subaru automobiles.
THIS IS FUJI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd., 1973: A review of products used to introduce customers to Subaru automobiles.
www.mclellansautomotive.com /sales-lit/bytype/outofprint/bymake/subaru/index.shtml   (168 words)

  
 Fuji Heavy Industries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Fuji is playing an important role and is responsible for the center wing section, wing and body fairings and the main landing gear door.
The Industrial Products Division has designed and manufactured the high performance Robin engines that power many differing types of industrial and agricultural equipment This division also makes all of the Robin 4 cycle gasoline and diesel engines marketed by Robin Europe.
Fuji Heavy Industries began as an aircraft manufacturer and has progressed to produce a wide range of transportation orientated equipment.
www.robin-europe.de /html/efhi.htm   (249 words)

  
 Oleg Dulin » Fuji Heavy Industries (Subaru) ends relationship with GM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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Fuji Heavy Industries (Subaru) ends relationship with GM
GM will sell its remaining 11.4 percent stake in Fuji Heavy in the market and the Japanese auto maker will end a joint-development project with GM’s Saab brand, Fuji Heavy said.
www.olegdulin.com /index.php/archives/2005/10/05/fuji-heavy-industries-subaru-ends-relationship-with-gm   (255 words)

  
 Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. (FHI)
Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. (FHI) traces its beginnings to Nakajima Aircraft Co., Ltd., founded in 1917.
In the intervening years, the spirit of innovation at FHI has propelled the company to the top of the Japanese aerospace industry.
The company joined with Boeing at the design stage to address joint development and manufacture of this mission-critical part, earning it the "Supplier of the Year" award for the main structure ahead of 3,000 other suppliers around the world.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/japan/fhi.htm   (197 words)

  
 GM buys stake in Fuji Heavy Industries - Dec. 10, 1999
But Fuji will remain an independent company with GM as its largest shareholder.
    Negotiations on the details of GM’s investment in Fuji still are under discussion, but it should come to about 169 million shares of Fuji common stock for about 853 yen per share, GM spokesman Henry Wong said.
Fuji would like to boost its brand position in North America and Europe,” Takeshi Tanaka, president and chief executive of Fuji, said.
money.cnn.com /1999/12/10/deals/gm_fuji   (1049 words)

  
 Subdriven | The Subaru Enthuisast Website
Nakajima, the man who founded the company that bore his name, caught news of the Wright Brothers successful first flight while he was enrolled in the Japanese navy and soon thereafter became involved in building airplanes for his country’s military.
The name was changed to Fuji Sangyo Co. and a new focus was begun in an effort to use their aircraft technologies in other fields.
As FHI was trying to expand their market’s and utilize their experience in the aircraft field, they created their first prototype car which was announced in February 1954, the P-1.
www.subdriven.com /news/publish/Features/article_237.shtml   (1780 words)

  
 CanadianDriver: Fuji Heavy Industries takes control of Subaru-Isuzu Automotive plant
Lafayette, Indiana - Fuji Heavy Industries, the maker of Subaru automobiles and a global manufacturer of transportation and aerospace-related products, has reached an agreement with Isuzu Motors Ltd. to acquire all of Isuzu's stock holdings in Subaru-Isuzu Automotive (SIA).
The deal will see Fuji Heavy Industries (FHI) take complete control over the joint venture manufacturing company based in Lafayette, Indiana.
Isuzu now owns 49 percent of the joint venture, which will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. on January 1, 2003.
www.canadiandriver.com /news/021031-1.htm   (350 words)

  
 ABC News: Toyota Buys Fuji Heavy Stake From GM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Kyoji Takenaka, President and CEO of Fuji Heavy Industries LTD.,speaks to the press as Mitsuo Kinoshita, Executive Vice President of Toyota Motor Corporation looks on at their press conference in Tokyo, Wednesday, Oct 5, 2005.
Toyota has agreed to buy an 8.7 percent stake in Japanese automaker Fuji Heavy Industries from General Motors Corp., officials from both companies said Wednesday, in a deal that will make Toyota the top shareholder in the company that makes Subaru cars.
Breaking its ties with Fuji is a small step in the right direction for GM, which is in need of a much larger restructuring, Casesa said.
abcnews.go.com /Business/wireStory?id=1188190&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312   (483 words)

  
 Automotive Intelligence
Subaru is the automotive division of Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. (FHI), a comprehensive, multifaceted transport equipment manufacturer.
Subaru of America, Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. of Japan.
Over the past nine years, the company has achieved year-over-year retail sales increases thanks to its popular line of car-based sport utility vehicles, and is among the fastest growing brands in the automobile industry.
www.autointell.com /asian_companies/subaru-motor/subaru-corp/subaru-corporate-01.htm   (208 words)

  
 Fuji Heavy Industries Introduces All-New Mini Car, the Subaru R1
Tokyo (ACPN) - Fuji Heavy Industries, Ltd. (TSE: 7270), known for it's Subaru brand, has announced the introduction of the Subaru R1, an all-new mini car for the Japanese market.
Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. (FHI) is one of Japan's leading industrial manufacturers, best known for distributing automobiles under the Subaru brand.
Throughout the fields of automotive engineering, aerospace, industrial products, ecology and transport systems, and bus manufacturing and prefabricated housing, the Company strives to promote full-scale global environmental preservation through the development of distinctive products under stringent safety standards.
www.asiacorpnet.com /Article.Asp?Art_ID=29019   (411 words)

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