General Motors East Africa

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General Motors East Africa Ltd. is an automobile and commercial vehicle manufacturer headquartered in Nairobi , Kenya .

history

The company was founded in 1975 as a joint venture between General Motors and the Kenyan government. The assembly of commercial vehicles began two years later in the company initially called General Motors Kenya Limited .

In 1992, General Motors (45%), C.Itoh (now Itochu Corporation, 4%) and the government (51%) were named as shareholders. The shareholders are currently GM Asia Pacific Holdings (57.7%), Industrial and Commercial Development Corporation (20%), Centum Investments (17.8%) and Itochu Corporation (4.5%).

Opel and Isuzu vehicles were assembled in 1992. Meanwhile (2016) commercial vehicles are from 3.5 to 15 tons. Around 22 vehicles are produced every day. In addition, GMEA imports complete Chevrolet vehicles .

By 2013, GMEA had assembled around 67,000 vehicles.

In early 2017 it was announced that General Motors had sold its GMEA stake in Isuzu.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c GM in East Africa ( Memento of the original from June 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on gm.com. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / careers.gm.com
  2. ↑ Africa Overview ( Memento of the original from March 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on www.gmsa.co.za. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gmsa.co.za
  3. ↑ Murage, Zacharia Nganga: The vehicle assembly industry in Kenya: An evaluation economic , Nairobi 1,983th
  4. ↑ a b United Nations Industrial Development Organization: Report on the automotive spare parts and components industry in Zimbabwe and other PTA countries. September 1992, accessed February 9, 2019 .
  5. ↑ General Motors Latin America, Africa and the Middle East at archives.media.gm.com.
  6. ↑ Wendell Roelf: General Motors East Africa to double truck output on construction boom , Reuters report of April 7, 2016.
  7. ↑ GMEA gears up for rapid growth , message on the website of the Kenyan automobile manufacturers association KMI from June 12, 2013.
  8. ↑ Kirsten Korosec: GM Agrees to Sell Stake in East African Unit to Isuzu. In: fortune.com. February 28, 2017, accessed April 5, 2017 .