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Honda is considering plans to shed a further 500 of the 3,400 jobs at its car factory in Swindon. 12-Nov-2009 Honda has acquired Foxfield Garage, the Wigan-based multi-franchised car dealership, and the site will be refurbished. 19-Mar-2009 Honda Formula One has undergone a management buy-out, securing the future of hundreds of jobs at its Brackley-based motor racing team. 09-Mar-2009 Honda is planning to close or sell its Brackley-based Formula One motor racing team by the end of the year, with the loss of up to 800 jobs. 08-Dec-2008 Honda is to invest £80m in the expansion of its plastic car parts and metal castings factory in Swindon. 21-Feb-2008 Honda is to recruit an additional 300 staff at its car factory in Swindon by August, due to rising demand for the CR-V and Civic models. 02-May-2007 Honda has announced plans to expand production at its car factory in Swindon from 190,000 to 250,000 a year in 2007, with the creation of 700 jobs. 29-Sep-2006 Honda is considering plans to introduce an extra shift at its car factory in Swindon early next year, with the creation of about 500 jobs. 20-Jul-2006 Honda has taken full control of the Northamptonshire-based BAR Formula One motor racing team, with the acquisition of a 55% stake from British American Tobacco. 05-Oct-2005 Honda Logistics is to relocate its Swindon-based parts distribution business to a new 350,000 sq ft warehouse on the South Marston industrial estate by September. 20-Apr-2005 Honda is considering plans to manufacture a new design of diesel engine at its plant in Swindon, but a number of other European sites are also being considered. 10-Oct-2003 Honda Motor has started recruiting 300 additional workers for its Swindon car plant, in preparation for the launch of a second shift on the new £130m assembly line. 21-Dec-2001 Honda Motor has announced changes at its Swindon car plant that will involve greater focus on the Civic and CRV off-road model, while production of the Accord will be transferred to Japan. 21-May-2001 Honda has announced plans for a £450m assembly line to increase production at its Swindon plant from 100,000 cars a year to 250,000 by 2002, and much of the increased output will be exported. 14-Aug-2000 Honda is to reduce the number of UK car parts suppliers in order to source more from continental Europe, and has also announced plans to reorganise its dealer structure and export Swindon-made cars to the US and the Middle East. 06-Jun-2000 Honda is planning to build 20,000 of its CRV sports utility vehicles at Swindon over the next year, in order to absorb excess capacity at the plant. 10-Apr-2000 Honda is to cut car production at its Swindon plant by more than 50%, and workers will be redeployed on training schemes and machine tool assembly for a new production line. 03-Apr-2000 Honda has announced plans to recruit a further 1,000 workers at the second car assembly plant being built in Swindon. 23-Mar-2000 Honda Motor Europe has appointed architects Rothera Goodwin to design a new £5m European headquarters at Langley near Slough. 28-Jan-2000 Honda is to reorganise its European car sales and distribution operations by consolidating 20 national divisions into three regional hubs based around London, Paris and Frankfurt. 13-Sep-1999 Honda is to relocate the 120 staff at its European headquarters in Reading to a new office at Langley near Slough. 09-Jul-1999 Honda has started construction work on a new £450m car plant in Swindon, in order to expand its European output to 250,000 cars a year by 2003. 07-Jul-1999 Honda is to relocate its UK sales headquarters from Chiswick to new premises at Langley near Heathrow early next year, where it will employ about 400 staff. 23-Jun-1999 Honda has bought 34 acres of land at the Cabot Park distribution park near Avonmouth docks for £10m, in order to double the size of its car distribution centre, and 125 jobs will be created. 09-Jun-1999 Honda is widening the search for 1,000 workers for its new car plant in Swindon to the Midlands and the West Country, due to local labour shortages. 10-May-1999 Honda is threatening immediate legal action against dealers selling unofficial imported motorcycles. 27-Nov-1998 Honda is planning to set up a training centre for engine technicians in Reading. 03-Nov-1998 Honda Motor of Japan is to invest a further £450m at its Swindon factory to build a compact hatchback, creating about 1,000 jobs. 11-Jun-1998 Honda Motor has confirmed plans to increase car production in the UK with output at its Swindon plant rising from 109,000 units in 1996 to an expected 130,000 units this year. 06-Feb-1998 Honda is to increase car production at its Swindon plant to 150,000 units next year, creating an additional 400 jobs. 16-Dec-1997 Honda is said to have chosen Swindon as the site to build a compact hatchback model, a move which will increase output at the plant to 250,000 cars a year, and official confirmation is expected in early 1998. 27-Oct-1997 Honda is creating a further 250 production line jobs at its Swindon plant. 05-Dec-1996 Honda Motor Europe is setting up Honda Motor Finance to provide finance to dealers from next year and to customers from 1998. 05-Oct-1996 Registrations of motorcycles, mopeds and scooters were up 19% in the first eight months of this year to 48,591, with Honda on a market share of about 26%, Yamaha and Suzuki on about 16% and Kawasaki 13%. 20-Sep-1996 Honda is planning a £50m press plant at Wantage to supply metal panels for UK-built cars, with 100 employees. 31-Aug-1996 Honda and Unipart are to jointly form three component manufacturing companies, involving investment of over £80m and the creation of up to 500 jobs in Coventry and Kent. 11-Jul-1996 Rover is taking on a further 300 engineers to help develop new models, as it responds to the decline in its relationship with Honda. 04-Nov-1995
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