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Hyundai Motor plans to set up a sales unit in Mexico in a bid to strengthen its position in the region, the company said Friday.
Hyundai Motor has so far been using Chrysler’s sales network to sell cars in Mexico.
Hyundai currently sells mostly compact cars in Mexico, such as the Atos and Accent.
“This will be a step to increase our presence in the country,” said Park Min-hyuk, a spokesman for Hyundai Motor.
During the first half of this year, Hyundai sold just over 500,000 vehicles in Mexico, up 8.6 percent compared to the same period last year.
Hyundai, the world’s fifth-largest carmaker, operates 17 overseas sales units.
Last year, it added units in France and Germany.
Meanwhile, The head of Hyundai Motor Co. renewed his call for the resumption of negotiations with the automaker’s union to try to avert a strike, officials said Friday.
“Let’s conclude a deal by quickly resuming the stalled negotiations,” Hyundai Motor President Yoon Gap-han said in a meeting with union leader Moon Yong-moon and other union officials at the company’s main assembly plants in Ulsan.
The latest appeal came two days after the union said more than 70 percent of its members authorized a strike. The union workers can walk off the job anytime starting Tuesday, a day after mediation by the state-run National Labor Relations Commission is set to end.
Yoon is seeking to hold negotiations with Moon, according to a company official handling labor issues in Seoul.
Still, the union proposed holding working-level talks with the management on Saturday, an offer that the company appears likely to accept.
“We have no reason to reject the proposal for the working-level talks,” said the company official in Seoul.
The commission arranged a meeting between the union and the management in Seoul earlier this week as part of its mandatory mediation, though no progress was made as the management did not offer a proposal.
“The company believes time is not ripe yet to present its proposals to the union,” a commission official in Seoul said on the condition of anonymity due to his involvement in the first round of mediation.
By Kim Ji-hyun and news reports
(jemmie@heraldcorp.com)
Hyundai Motor has so far been using Chrysler’s sales network to sell cars in Mexico.
Hyundai currently sells mostly compact cars in Mexico, such as the Atos and Accent.
“This will be a step to increase our presence in the country,” said Park Min-hyuk, a spokesman for Hyundai Motor.
During the first half of this year, Hyundai sold just over 500,000 vehicles in Mexico, up 8.6 percent compared to the same period last year.
Hyundai, the world’s fifth-largest carmaker, operates 17 overseas sales units.
Last year, it added units in France and Germany.
Meanwhile, The head of Hyundai Motor Co. renewed his call for the resumption of negotiations with the automaker’s union to try to avert a strike, officials said Friday.
“Let’s conclude a deal by quickly resuming the stalled negotiations,” Hyundai Motor President Yoon Gap-han said in a meeting with union leader Moon Yong-moon and other union officials at the company’s main assembly plants in Ulsan.
The latest appeal came two days after the union said more than 70 percent of its members authorized a strike. The union workers can walk off the job anytime starting Tuesday, a day after mediation by the state-run National Labor Relations Commission is set to end.
Yoon is seeking to hold negotiations with Moon, according to a company official handling labor issues in Seoul.
Still, the union proposed holding working-level talks with the management on Saturday, an offer that the company appears likely to accept.
“We have no reason to reject the proposal for the working-level talks,” said the company official in Seoul.
The commission arranged a meeting between the union and the management in Seoul earlier this week as part of its mandatory mediation, though no progress was made as the management did not offer a proposal.
“The company believes time is not ripe yet to present its proposals to the union,” a commission official in Seoul said on the condition of anonymity due to his involvement in the first round of mediation.
By Kim Ji-hyun and news reports
(jemmie@heraldcorp.com)
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