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Honda in America 2021 This document is interactive and contains links to additional information. Please click on content with underlines to learn more. Honda in America 2021 Over 60 Years of Investing in America Our Reason to Exist $22.6 BILLION “The purpose Cumulative capital investment of technology is to $2.3 BILLION 28.3 MILLION help people.” — Soichiro Honda Direct payroll Cars and light trucks produced in the U.S. since 1982 Those words from our founder haveshaped the history of the products 30,000 we create for our customers and our contributions to society. This has been U.S. associates our commitment in America for more than 60 years, and for over 40 years we’ve been developing and building those products in America. DEALER $5.3 BILLION 156,000 JOBS This has not only created new value for our customers, it has changed lives New investment in the at 13,300 dealerships in communities across the U.S. past five years and distributors It’s worth considering, what if Honda didn’t exist? 70 U.S. FACILITIES Including 12 manufacturing plants, 19 R&D facilities, and 12 parts centers, as well as marketing, sales, service and financing operations INVESTING IN AMERICA ... we hadn’t led a wave of new ... we hadn’t pioneered technology manufacturers who followed Honda that has led to advances in both Our associates are our greatest experts for the use of Personal in building products here, creating tens environmental and safety performance, asset. Since the outbreak Protective Equipment, social of the COVID-19 pandemic, distancing, contact tracing and of thousands of jobs across America? for our customers and society? the health and safety of our other appropriate measures. associates has been our top During this challenging priority, with Honda facilities time, we continue working All photos in this brochure of Through the efforts of our30,000 associates who develop, build, and sell taking steps to carefully manage to support our associates, Honda associates not wearing a diverse array of products in the U.S., we will continue to fulfill our purpose our operations following the customers and communities masks were taken prior to the recommendations of health across the U.S. start of the COVID-19 pandemic. as a company, helping people and making their lives better. PAGE 1 Building Products Investing in the Workforce of Tomorrow in America Technology can be innovative, but only people can innovate. The rapid advancement of vehicle technologies and the modern production technologies used to build them are placing the auto industry at a crossroads. Honda is investing in programs and educational initiatives to engage and prepare the kinds of skilled associates who will represent the manufacturing workforce of the future. Based on Honda’s longstanding commitment to build products close to our customers, more than two-thirds of the Honda and Acura vehicles sold in We partner with local schools Honda Professional Automotive Career America in 2020 were built here — making Honda second among all full-line and two-year and four-year colleges Training (PACT) provides state-of-the-art automakers for the share of vehicles that were built and sold in America.* to stimulate interest in STEM, training to help students become certified including equipment purchases. technicians in high-demand at Honda and Acura dealerships across America. Honda had not made the Honda operates To create enthusiasm We’ve established automobile pioneering commitment to build for manufacturing a work-study manufacturing products in America in 1979? among young students, program for students facilities in Honda worked with at two-year America – Honda was the first Japanese an education game colleges to gain 5more than any automaker to build cars in the developer to create experience other international a first-of-its-kind working at U.S. Since then, 13 other automaker. manufacturing Honda while international automakers have video game. attending school. followed Honda, establishing their own auto plants in America, supporting nearly 2.5 million jobs and $92 billion in investment. Honda created two technical development Honda has developed Mobile centers in Ohio to provide our current Manufacturing Laboratories with robotics associates training opportunities with new and other technologies that provide students with We now manufacturing technologies. hands-on learning about manufacturing. have 12 manufacturing 966,000 585,000 1,061,000 97,000 plants Cars and Light Power Equipment Automobile Powersports “ As the first member of my family to mobile labs, work-study initiatives, and Engines in America Trucks Products Products earn a college degree, providing students other efforts, we’re helping students get with opportunities is a passion for me. the skills they need to obtain good-paying that produce At Honda, through technical education manufacturing jobs that will support 5 million programs, manufacturing video games, families, communities and our economy.” products Scot McLemore 942,000 31 1,307,000 56 Manager, Talent Acquisition annually. Transmissions Aircraft General Purpose Aircraft Engines Board Member, Ohio Governor’s Office of Workforce Transformation Engines PAGE 2 *Honda and Acura products are built using domestic and globally sourced parts. Designing and Creating “ I always challenge my team to create our own new value and to actively share that new value with our industry partners. Products in America We join committees and share information at conferences to help power new thinking by our open-minded partners. This draws everyone closer and fuels collaboration and even more new thinking, which in turn leads to innovation.” Honda engineers in the U.S. play a lead role in the research, Sue Bai design and development of the innovative products we build in Chief Engineer, Division Director Honda Research Institute USA, Inc. America for our customers here and around the world. Bai is a two-time winner of the SAE International Intelligent Transportation Systems Award for her achievements in improving safety in mobility environments through connected-vehicle technology. Honda associates 2,400 33 in the U.S. have led Honda R&D Associates Car and Light-Truck in America Models the research, design Honda had not begun developing new products and development of aren’t just responsible for and technologies in America in 1975? Honda products at $1.2 Billion 35 what the vehicle looks like. R&D facilities Investment in U.S. Powersports OUR U.S. R&D TEAMS R&D Operations Since starting , 19 in America. Products Honda has developed 33 vehicles in the U.S., including the advancement of safety HondaJet 50 innovations that benefit not only our Advanced Power Equipment Light Jet Products customers but everyone sharing the road. Our U.S. engineers handle complete product development, Honda associates in the U.S. were issued The is a 35-mile stretch of highway including 278 patents in 2020, including in the in Ohio where Honda tests connected-vehicle systems to body, platform mechanical, electrical and chemical fields. improve traffic flow toward realizing a collision-free society. and chassis design, product styling design, safety and environmental technology development, prototype fabrication and testing. Honda’s technology, now being tested in With major R&D facilities in California, Ohio, and North Carolina, Ohio, enables cars to virtually see through and around buildings Honda also creates side-by-side and all-terrain vehicles and to help identify and alert drivers to otherwise hidden hazards. power equipment products in America. PAGE 4 Honda and Acura products are built using domestic and globally sourced parts. PAGE 5 Locally Sourced for Quality for the World Global Sales Honda began planning to export the products we make in America even before the first U.S. Honda plant began operation in 1979. Under the rallying cry “Quality for the world, made in the USA” Honda began motorcycle exports the following year. Since Honda began building products in America in 1979, we’ve steadily grown our purchases Honda exported U.S.-built Honda has now exported over 1.37 million cars and products to 78 countries and of parts and materials from U.S. suppliers. light trucks from the U.S. to overseas markets. territories in 2020. Today, Honda works with that supply parts that allow Honda to produce a diverse range of products for our customers in America and around the world. $23.5 Billion $5.8 Billion $1.1 Billion $30.4 Billion 627 / 33 Parts & Materials Goods & Services Service Parts Purchased from 627 U.S. suppliers of parts and U.S. suppliers in 2020 materials across 33 states 13 Models American-made car and light-truck models Investing in exported from the U.S. Diverse Businesses 1.37 Million in 2020 As part of our efforts to American-made Honda increase diversity and inclusion and Acura cars and in our business operations, light trucks exported Honda has hosted an outside of North aimed at connecting America since 1987 our Tier 1 suppliers with minority-owned suppliers, In 2020, Honda purchased $23.5 billion in parts and materials setting specific spending from 627 U.S. suppliers that provide parts to the company’s targets for minority-owned manufacturing operations in the region, which produce cars and businesses. This has resulted $1 Billion light trucks and the engines and transmissions that power them. in annual purchases of over Value of 2020 U.S. $2.9 billion from women- and exports: vehicles, power minority-owned businesses. equipment, powersports Honda also works Honda purchased more Honda purchased products, service parts, with over 7,200 North than $1.1 billion in parts nearly $184 million in and aircraft American indirect from 1,041 service parts parts and materials procurement suppliers suppliers in the U.S. from 154 U.S. suppliers that provide a wide in 2020.
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