Nissan Motor Manufacturing (UK)

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Nissan Motor Manufacturing (UK)
legal form Limited
founding 1984
Seat Washington ( United Kingdom ) United KingdomUnited Kingdom 
Number of employees 6792 (2014)
Branch Automobile production

Photo of the NMUK Washington facility.

Nissan Motor Manufacturing (UK) Ltd. ( NMUK for short ) is a car manufacturer based in Washington ( Sunderland ), UK , which is a subsidiary of Nissan .

history

Datsun vehicles have been imported to the UK since 1968. With around 1.2 million copies sold by 1986, Datsun was one of the most successful foreign brands.

From 1981 onwards, Nissan began to consider the possibility of a location in the UK. At 1.2 billion British pounds, this investment was the largest single investment by a Japanese manufacturer in Europe in the 1980s. This also exceeded the total of all previous Japanese commitments in Great Britain.

The company was founded in 1984. The first vehicle to roll off the production line was a Nissan Bluebird in July 1986 . Margaret Thatcher also attended the opening ceremony in September 1986 .

At the beginning there were 500 employees who produced 5,000 vehicles in the first year.

Vehicles (left-hand drive) have also been exported to continental Europe since 1988. By 2006, three million vehicles had been exported.

In 1999, NMUK became the first Japanese manufacturer to produce more than a million vehicles in Europe. The plant has been operating in three shifts since 2008.

By 2014, NMUK had built 7.7 million vehicles.

According to its own information, NMUK has been the largest vehicle manufacturer in the country since 1999. Every third vehicle produced in Great Britain is a Nissan. At the same time, 80% of the production is exported to 130 countries. For 2016 and 2017, however, NMUK had to admit defeat to Jaguar Land Rover.

Models

The Bluebird was produced from 1986 to 1990 (around 200,000 units) and then replaced by the Primera, which was to roll off the production line by 2007. Production was expanded to include the Micra in 1992 (until 2010). The third model was the Almera in 2000 (until 2006), and finally the Note in 2006 .

The product portfolio includes the Qashqai (since 2006), the Juke (since 2010, also in the Nismo version since 2012), the Leaf (since 2013), the Infiniti Q30 (since 2015) and the Infiniti QX30 (since 2016).

The Qashqai was the UK's most-produced vehicle in 2017.

Awards

The company has received several awards.

  • 1993: Queen's Award (for exports, second award)
  • 1993: RSA Environmental Award
  • 1994: Gold Award from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA)
  • 2009: Queen's Award (for exports)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Nissan Motor Manufacturing UK (NMUK). In: newsroom.nissan-europe.com. June 30, 2014, accessed April 30, 2018 .
  2. ^ Datsun in the UK. In: datsuncars.co.uk. Retrieved May 1, 2018 .
  3. ^ A b c Marie Conte-Helm, "The road from Nissan to Samsung: a historical overview of East Asian investment in a UK region", in: Asia Pacific Business Review , 5: 2 (1989), pp. 36-58 doi : 10.1080 / 13602389912331287983 .
  4. ↑ a b Stuart Crowther and Philip Garrahan, Corporate power and the local economy, in: Industrial Relations Journal 19: 1 (1988). Pp. 51-59, doi : 10.1111 / j.1468-2338.1988.tb00014.x
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g Robert Gibson: How Nissan's Sunderland plant transformed the North East. In: chroniclelive.co.uk. September 7, 2016, accessed May 1, 2018 .
  6. ↑ a b Key dates in Nissan's history. In: sunderlandecho.com. June 29, 2008, accessed May 1, 2018 .
  7. ^ A b Dan Elsom: Best selling UK-built car abroad revealed - and it's not even British. In: The Sun . January 31, 2018, accessed May 2, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Kevin Clark: Bluebirds fly in to Sunderland's Nissan plans. In: sunderlandecho.com. July 21, 2016, accessed May 1, 2018 .
  9. ^ Chris Knapman: The history of Nissan's Sunderland factory. In: telegraph.co.uk. December 19, 2012, accessed May 1, 2018 .