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Nissan said production at its two US car plants would be suspended for three working days from yesterday due to a supply problem that has already disrupted output in Japan, [...]

Nissan is to build a plant in the UK to make lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles in one of the biggest new investments by a carmaker since the industry entered [...]

Nissan's Sunderland plant, the UK's biggest car manufacturing site, has halted all production for the rest of this week to manage its inventory levels in the face of the global [...]

In a move that underlines the severity of the downturn in global car demand, there will be no vehicle production today at Nissan's Sunderland site, widely regarded as Europe's most [...]

The deteriorating conditions for UK manufacturing were starkly underlined yesterday by news that falling orders have forced the carmaker Nissan to halt production for two of its Sunderland-made models for [...]

TORONTO -- Nissan, the Japanese carmaker, has joined its hard-pressed Detroit rivals by cutting its US workforce in the face of sagging demand for sport-utility vehicles and pick-up trucks. Nissan [...]

TOKYO -- Nissan yesterday said it had cut initial production costs by 30 per cent and aimed to reduce costs by another 10-20 per cent by raising production efficiency. Japan's [...]

PARIS -- Honda is to start recruiting immediately 700 extra employees to increase output at its Swindon plant in Wiltshire to its full capacity of 250,000 units a year. The [...]

TOKYO -- Nippon Steel, Japan's leading steelmaker, is considering expanding its production capacity of automotive steel sheet in North America to keep pace with demand from Japanese carmakers. Despite the [...]

Has Le Cost Killer gone soft? Carlos Ghosn, the chief executive of Renault and its Japanese partner Nissan, yesterday laid out a four-year plan for the French carmaker which involved [...]

Toyota Motor, Japan's largest carmaker, is to increase output at its Derbyshire plant by 30 per cent to soak-up excess capacity and improve production costs. The move, likely to be [...]

Honda yesterday joined a growing list of mainly Japanese companies abandoning or redrafting manufacturing projects in Britain because of the weakness of the euro compared with sterling. The Japanese carmaker [...]

Nissan has reached an agreement with workers at its Sunderland plant to introduce the UK's first round-the-clock assembly line. The decision will safeguard the plant's 5,000 jobs and secure the [...]

First reports from Tokyo yesterday sent a frisson of alarm through the thousands of companies that make up Britain's beleaguered motor components sector. Toyota, Japan's biggest carmaker, would be requiring [...]

Nissan's decision on whether to build its next-generation small car in the UK will be strongly influenced by whether the Japanese company believes the government has done enough to improve [...]

Nissan has joined a chorus of criticism from the world's leading carmakers about the strength of sterling, shaking Britain's reputation as the location of choice in Europe. Echoing complaints from [...]

Japanese vehicle makers retain a clear productivity advantage in their North American plants compared with US rivals - but General Motors, traditionally an industry laggard in terms of labour productivity, [...]

Nissan, the Japanese car-maker, will increase production at its two Mexican plants by 50 per cent this year as it moves to make Mexico the sole supplier of its newly [...]

There is one town in Japan where Ghosn is a bad word. Murayama, home to Nissan Motor's second oldest car factory, may resemble most other wealthy commuter suburbs of Tokyo [...]

Nissan Motor and Renault of France are mulling over plans to share manufacturing facilities in south-east Asia as part of their global alliance agreed last March. The carmakers appear to [...]

Renault and Nissan Motors are to invest USDollars 400m in their Mexican operations over the next seven years as part of a sweeping equity alliance agreed in March. The investment [...]

Renault, the French carmaker, is increasing by FFr3bn (457m, Dollars 530m) the capital of its Renault VI heavy truck unit in order to strengthen its financial structure and 'provide it [...]