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1994), which was sold to DDI and Japan Telecom in 1999.Also Nissan Marine who produces boat motors in a joint venture with Marubeni. In 2000 the foundation was renamed the Aventis Foundation subsequent to the 1999 merger of Hoechst and Rhône-Poulenc. Nissan has also had a number of ventures outside the automotive industry, most notably the Tu-Ka mobile phone service (est. The Aventis Prizes are managed by the Royal Society, the UK national academy of science, and the Aventis Foundation, a German charitable trust established in 1996 as the Hoechst Foundation with an endowment of €50 million. Nissan does not develop these cars. The Aventis Prizes for Science Books, which celebrate the very best in popular science writing for adults and children, have grown to be one of the world's most prestigious non-fiction literary prizes. Suzuki or Mitsubishi. Research and development investment was €4 bn.

Nissan also sells a small range of keicars, mainly as a joint venture with other japanese car makers, f.e. It has operations in more than 100 countries throughout the 5 continents and has 99,700 employees worlwide. Nissan sells its luxury models in North America under the Infiniti brand. In 2003, Sanofi-Aventis's consolidated sales was €25 bn. In 1985, nissan created "NISMO", for competition & performance development of such cars. Dehecq has been the General Manager of Sanofi since its creation in 1973. Even still though, used imports of the sportier GTS and GT-R coupes have become popular in other right-hand-drive countries like Australia and Canada. The merged company was based in Strasbourg, France.

Unfortunately, Nissan has been reluctant to sell most Skylines outside of Japan. merged with Hoechst Marion Roussel, in turn formed merging Hoechst AG with Roussel and Marion Merrell Dow. It also produced several memorable sports cars, including the Z-car, an affordable sports car originally introduced in 1969; and the Skyline GT-R, a hugely-powerful all-wheel-drive sports coupe that is regarded by many as Japan's flagship supercar. Aventis was formed in 1999 when Rhône-Poulenc S.A. There was a major strike in 1953. The merged company was based in Paris, France. Nissan has produced an extensive range of mainstream cars and trucks, initially for domestic consumption but exported around the world since the 1950s. Sanofi-Synthélabo was formed in 1999 when Sanofi merged with Synthélabo.

The company's head office is now in Tokyo but will move back to Yokohama in 2010. French government, desiring a local merger solution, put heavy pressure on Sanofi-Synthélabo to raise its bid for Aventis after it became known that Novartis, a Swiss pharmaceutical company, was in the running. Nissan also produces cars at its factory near Pretoria, South Africa. Government intervention also played an active role. However, financial difficulties in Australia in the late 1980s caused Nissan to cease production there. The three-month takeover battle concluded when Sanofi-Synthélabo launched a friendly bid of €54.5 bn in place of the previously rejected hostile bid. A plant in Sunderland, UK was added in the mid-1980s as the subsidiary Nissan Motor Manufacturing (UK) Ltd. Initially, Aventis rejected the bid because it offered inferior value based on the company's share value.

An engine plant in Decherd, Tennessee followed, and most recently a second assembly plant in Canton, Mississippi. In early 2004, Sanofi-Synthélabo made a hostile takeover bid worth €47.8 bn against Aventis. This facility at first built only trucks, but has since been expanded to produce several car lines. Sanofi-Aventis was formed in 2004 when Sanofi-Synthélabo merged with Aventis. The firm established assembly operations in the United States in the early 1980s, with a plant in Smyrna, Tennessee. . In the wake of the fuel crisis, Nissan became one of the world's largest exporters of automobiles and set up new factories in Mexico and Australia. Sanofi-Aventis covers 7 therapeutic areas: cardiovascular, thrombosis, oncology, diabetes, central nervous system, internal medicine and vaccines.

Nissan would introduce a new luxury brand for the US market in the late 1980s called Infiniti. Sanofi-Aventis engages in the research, development, manufacture and marketing of pharmaceutical products for sale principlally in the presciption market. The Prince name was eventually abandoned, with successive Skylines and Glorias bearing the Nissan name - however, "Prince" is still used in names of certain Nissan dealers in Japan. Sanofi-Aventis (Euronext:FR0000120578) (NYSE:SNY), headquartered in Paris, France, is the world's number 3 company in the pharmaceutical industry (behind Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline, but above Merck and AstraZeneca). In 1966, Nissan merged with the Prince Motor Company, bringing into its range more upmarket cars, including the Skyline and Gloria. Yahoo! - Sanofi-Aventis Company Profile. Even after the Nissan introduced its own models in the 1960s, its engines continued to be derived from Austin's A- and B-family designs. Sales by geographic area breakdown: 58% from Europe, 24% from US, 18% from rest of the world.

These designs were apparently covered by a 1952-1960 license agreement between the companies. Sales by activity breakdown: 39% from Cardiovascular/Thrombosis, 29% from Central Nervous System, 18% from Internal Medicine, 11% from Oncology, 3% from other pharmaceutical products. The company soon began producing a variety of Austin-derived models like the original Austin A50-based Datsun 1000. Voting right distribution: 21.37% to Total, 17.12% to L'Oréal, 1.54% to employees, and 59.97% to the public. Nissan began building Austin 7s in 1930, though the legitimacy of their license is debated. Breakdown of share ownership: 12.65% by Total SA, 10.13% by L'Oréal, 5.47% treasury shares, 1.29% employees, the remaining 70.46% are publicly traded. Nissan chose Austin of the United Kingdom, which later became the British Motor Corporation. Gérard Le Fur, Senior EVP.

Like Hino and Isuzu, but unlike Toyota, Nissan partnered with a European company to gain access to automobile and engine designs. Jean-François Dehecq, Chairman and CEO. (日産重工業). For two years (1947 to 1948) the company was briefly called Nissan Heavy Industries Corp. (日産自動車, Nissan Jidosha Kaisha) on June 1, 1934, and was founded by Yoshisuke Aikawa.

The company became Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. Ltd.") and moved to Yokohama. (自動車製造株式会社, "Automobile Manufacturing Co. Ltd.

In 1933, the company name was Nipponized to Jidosha-Seizo Co. However, the last syllable was changed to "sun", because "son" also means "loss" (損) in Japanese. In 1931, the first DATSON—meaning "Son of DAT"—was produced. (ダット自動車製造株式会社, Dat Jidosha Seizo Kabushiki-Kaisha) in Osaka until 1932.

Ltd. (実用自動車製造株式会社, Jitsuyō Jidōsha Seikoku Kabushiki Gaisha) (established 1919) as DAT Automobile Manufacturing Co. The next year, the Tokyo-based company merged with the Osaka-based Jitsuyo Jidosha Co., Ltd. in 1918, and again, in 1925, to DAT Motorcar Co.

The Works was renamed to Kwaishinsha Motorcar Co. The new car's name being the acronym of the company's partners' surnames:. In 1914, the Kwaishinsha Motorcar Works (快進自動車工場, Kaishin Jidōsha Kōjō), established three years earlier, in Azabu-Hiroo District in Tokyo, built the first DAT. .

. Nissan is also noted for being one of the world's leading manufacturers of automobile engines, with its VG and VQ V6 engines appearing on "Ward's 10 Best Engines" for 11 straight years - every year since the award's inception. His achievements in revitalizing the Japanese company have been noted by Emperor Akihito, who awarded him the Japan Medal with Blue Ribbon in 2004. Ghosn has since been idolized as a national hero in Japan as a symbol of the strength of the currently ailing Japanese economy, with Ghosn and the Nissan revival story prominently featured in Japanese manga and popular culture.

In 2001, the company initialed Nissan 180, capitalizing on the success of the NRP. Under Ghosn's "Nissan Revival Plan" (NRP), Nissan has rebounded in what many leading economists consider to be one of the most spectacular corporate turnarounds in history, catapulting Nissan to record profits and a dramatic revitalization of both its Nissan and Infiniti model line-ups. Due to financial problems throughout the 1990s (to the point where most believe an American company in a similarly bad financial state would have ceased trading), the French company Renault took a large shareholding in the company and installed Carlos Ghosn as president, the first non-Japanese person to run a Japanese car company (Mazda was run by an American, Mark Fields—and by Briton Lewis Booth — and Mitsubishi was run by a German, Rolf Eckrodt). Nissan used to be Japan's second-largest car company, after Toyota, but it has dropped to third in size after Honda.

Nissan plans to move their headquarters to Yokohama, Kanagawa by 2010; the headquarters will start construction in 2007. Their head offices are in the Ginza area of Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan. From 1932 to 1983, they also used the trademark Datsun. Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (日産自動車株式会社) (TYO: 7201) is a Japanese automobile maker.

EPA 2004 fuel economy report (Nissan). List of Nissan engines. List of Nissan vehicles. Meitaro Takeuchi (竹内 明太郎 Takeuchi Meitarō).

Rokuro Aoyama (青山 禄朗 Aoyama Rokurō). Kenjiro Den (田 健次郎 Den Kenjirō).