2004

09-12-2004
KIA PICANTO STORMS EUROPEAN MARKETS
Kia´s all-new small car, the Kia Picanto, has taken European markets by storm in 2004. Sales of this model are expected to reach 54,000 by year-end, just eight months after the model´s launch, as increasing numbers of customers find the cheeky-looking, fun-to-drive, five-door hatchback, and its extremely competitive value-for-money ownership packages - irresistible. Read more
01-12-2004
KIA SALES IN EUROPE LEAP 128% DURING NOVEMBER
Kia sales in Europe during November reached new record-high levels for that month, with a total of 19,462 vehicles delivered - an incredible 128% higher than sales in November 2003 - in what is often regarded as a ´quiet´ month for new car sales. This latest record result pushes Kia´s year-to-date accumulated sales for 11 months to 161,825 units, 46% higher than sales over the same period last year - maintaining Kia´s position as Europe´s fastest growing automotive brand. Read more
01-11-2004
KIA SETS NEW EXPORT RECORDS IN OCTOBER
Kia Motors Corporation (KMC) announced today that its exports of completed vehicles during October rose by 26.8% year-on-year to 72,727 units - establishing a new all-time monthly export record. Responding particularly to ever higher customer demand in Europe and North America, global exports for the first 10 months of 2004 climbed 41% to 588,694 units, compared to 417,548 last year. Read more
28-10-2004
GLOBAL SALES & EXPORTS RISE OVER NINE MONTHS
Kia Motors Corporation (KMC) announced today that its vehicle sales rose by 15.4% year-on-year to 703,175 units during the first nine months of 2004, thanks to brisk exports to Europe and North America, and the hugely successful launch of the new compact Sportage SUV on the domestic Korean market. Read more
01-10-2004
ALL TIME HIGH RECORD SALES FOR KIA
Kia achieved all-time high record sales in Europe during the month of September, with a total of 20,048 cars delivered to customers across the region. It is the first time that Kia´s monthly sales have exceed 20,000 units and represent a 59% rise over sales in September 2003. Read more
02-09-2004
KIA MOTORS TASK FORCE TO ASSESS OVERSEAS CONSUMER SENTIMENT ON KIA PRODUCT QUALITY
Kia Motors announced today that it has dispatched the first group of a 205-member Overseas Quality Inspection Task Force to the strategic export markets of Europe and the US in an effort to reinforce the company´s global quality management pro-gram. Read more
02-08-2004
ALL-TIME RECORD KIA EXPORTS TO EUROPE
Kia´s exports to Europe in the first half of 2004 have reached an all-time high, jumping by 49% to a record 112,787 passenger cars and light trucks. This remarkable performance is the result of numerous factors, including the launches of the new A-Segment Picanto small car and the new Cerato (C-Segment) models, the recruiting of new dealers (up 200 over last year), increased local marketing initiatives and the announcement that Kia will manufacture cars in Slovakia from 2006, at its first-ever European facility. Read more
21-07-2004
KIA´s POPULAR RIO SEDAN TO BE ASSEMBLED AND SOLD IN IRAN
Kia Motors Corporation has announced that its popular Rio sedan will be assembled and marketed in Iran from early 2005. Under the new agreement between Kia and its Iranian partner, Saipa Corporation, 100,000 Rio SF sedans will be assembled locally from component kits supplied by Kia from Korea. Read more
14-07-2004
KIA NAMED ´FRANCHISE OF THE YEAR´ IN UK
Kia Motors (UK) Limited has been named the ´2004 Franchise of the Year´ by Motor Trader - the influential British weekly automotive newspaper that is regarded as the country´s retail motor industry´s bible - in recognition of its dramatic growth and development in the UK new car market. Read more
13-07-2004
KIA BEGINS CARNIVAL MPV SALES IN CHINA
Kia Motors has begun nationwide sales of its popular Carnival MPV in China, following the unveiling of this global best-seller at the Beijing Motor Show last month. Read more
01-07-2004
BEST-EVER MONTH FOR KIA SALES IN EUROPE
Kia achieved its best-ever monthly sales in Europe during June, with a total of 17,854 vehicles delivered to customers. This represents a 49% rise over June 2003 and Kia, again the fastest-growing automotive brand in Europe that month, also achieved a record market share claiming 1.3% of total sales. Read more
09-06-2004
KIA MOTORS ASKS RIO OWNERS TO VISIT DEALER WORKSHOPS
Kia Motors is requesting owners of specific Kia Rio models take their cars to their nearest authorised dealer workshop for a safety check. Read more
03-06-2004
KIA SETS NEW SALES AND EXPORTS RECORDS
Sales and exports of Kia vehicles climbed to a new record monthly level in May and figures for the first five months of 2004 show continually growing demand for Kia products all around the world. Exports reached 284,762 units for the year so far, a 37.8% improvement. Read more
23-05-2004
KIA CELEBRATES 60TH ANNIVERSARY
Kia Motors Corporation celebrates 60 glorious years of motor manufacturing today (24 May), by holding a three day Global Distributors´ Convention in South Korea. Distributors, dealers and journalists from all around the world met at Kia´s headquarters in Seoul to mark an historic milestone in the life of this fast-growing car manufacturer. Read more
23-05-2004
KIA HOLDS 2004 GLOBAL DISTRIBUTORS´ CONVENTION
Kia Motors Corporation began its four day 2004 Global Distributors´ Convention today in Seoul, South Korea, with journalists, distributors and dealers from all over the world travelling to participate in the annual convention. Read more
12-05-2004
KIA TO BUILD SECOND PLANT IN CHINA
The Kia Motors Corporation has announced that it will build a second vehicle assembly plant in China´s Jiangsu province at a total cost of €545 million. Revealing its plans at an official signing ceremony attended by top company executives and Chinese officials in Nanjing today (Thursday), Kia stated that the new plant will have an annual capacity of 300,000 vehicles and will be ready for production by 2006. The decision to build another plant is intended to give Kia a stronger presence in China and position the company to claim a much higher share of the rapidly expanding Chinese market. Read more
11-05-2004
KIA KICKS OFF ´VISION 21´ PROGRAMME
Every year, the Kia Motors Corporation invites a number of its distributors and dealers, together with dealer prospects and journalists from around the world, to visit Korea for six days and take part in the ´Kia Vision 21´ programme. During 2004, eight groups comprising a total of more than 500 participants will be taking part in Vision 21. Read more
10-05-2004
STRONG SALES IN EUROPE BOOST KIA RESULTS
The Kia Motors Corporation has revealed its sales, exports and financial results for the period covering the first three months of 2004. Thanks largely to increased export sales of higher-specification vehicles like the Sorento SUV and Opirus luxury sedan, net profits rose by 17.9% to 166.9 billion Won (€119.8 million), as the value of Kia´s first-quarter sales climbed 12.5% compared to 2003 - reaching 3.38 trillion Won (€2.42 billion). Read more
03-05-2004
KIA HOLDS ´BEST TECHNICIAN´ COMPETITION
More than 90 competitors from 44 countries came to Korea last week to test their skills in the annual Kia Motors Corporation ´Skills World Cup´ for Kia dealer´s technicians from all around the world. The 93 finalists had earlier won regional and national skills competitions - proving they were the best of Kia´s 12,000 world-wide technicians. Read more
15-04-2004
KIA SPONSORS WORLD INLINE SKATING CUP
Kia Motors Corporation has expanded its programme of international sporting sponsorships to include the 2004 World Inline Cup for roller skaters which began in Korea at Seoul´s Jamsil Stadium on 11 April. Read more
06-04-2004
KIA BREAKS GROUND ON ITS FIRST EUROPEAN AUTO PLANT
Kia Motors Corporation (KMC) today held a groundbreaking ceremony to mark the beginning of construction for its new €1 billion manufacturing plant in Zilina, Slovakia. In attendance were executives from Kia Motors, K.J. Yoon, President of Kia Motors, H.Y. Choi, President of the Strategy Coordi-nation Office, and J.I. Park, Chairman of Hyundai Mobis. Attending for the Slovak Republic were Mr. Pavol Hrušovský, Speaker of the National Council of the Slovak Republic and Mr. Pavol Rusko, Vice-Premier and Minister of Economy of the Slovak Republic, as well as many other dignitaries. Read more
01-04-2004
KIA SETS THREE NEW RECORDS IN MARCH
Kia Motors Corporation has set all-time monthly records for export shipments and export sales in March, shipping 67,654 vehicles and recording 52,806 retail sales outside Korea during the month. In Europe, Kia recorded its ´best-ever´ month in March delivering a total of 14,128 vehicles. Read more
31-03-2004
KIA EUROPE HEADQUARTERS TO RELOCATE TO A NEW AND LARGER BUILDING
The decision to relocate the Frankfurt Headquarters to a superior facility was based upon the need to create a headquarters that can properly
manage the rapid growth of Kia Motors Europe. The expanded facility further establishes Kia´s European presence as it will be able to provide support to European distributors and to the new Slovakian plant. The time and location of the move has yet to be determined. Read more
18-03-2004
KIA SIGNS SLOVAKIAN INVESTMENT AGREEMENT
Kia Motors Corporation held a signing ceremony at the central government building in Bratislava, Slovakia on 17 March, to officially authorise the construction of Kia´s new €1 billion automotive manufacturing and assembly plant in the Slovak Republic. Signatories to the Investment Agreement were Hyundai-Kia Automotive Group Chairman and CEO Mong-Koo Chung and Slovakian Prime Minister Mikulas Dzurinda. Read more
09-03-2004
KIA TO SIGN SLOVAKIAN PLANT AGREEMENT
Kia Motors Corporation will hold a signing ceremony on 17 March in Bratislava, Slovakia to officially authorize the construction of its new €700 million automotive assembly plant. The major new car manufacturing facility in Europe, which will be owned and operated by Kia, will begin production of high-volume Kia models in late 2006 and produce up to 200,000 Kia cars annually at maximum capacity. Read more
01-03-2004
KIA TO MANUFACTURE CARS IN EUROPE
Kia Motors has announced plans to build a major new car manufacturing facility in Europe. Designed to produce high-volume Kia models, the factory represents an investment of €700 million. It will be owned and managed by Kia Motors and will build up to 200,000 Kia cars annually. Read more
03-02-2004
KIA MOTORS WIDENS DAVIS CUP SPONSORSHIP
Kia Motors has reached an agreement with the International Tennis Federation (ITF), owners and organizers of Davis Cup by BNP Paribas, to reinforce the company´s existing sponsorship.

Kia Motors began sponsoring Davis Cup - the world´s largest annual international team competition in sport - in 2003. The original agreement covered ties in the Europe-Africa zones. Read more
01-02-2004
´FAST START´ FOR KIA BREAKS SALES RECORD
Kia Motors extraordinary 18-month sales boom in Europe is continuing to accelerate into 2004 with an all-time January sales record. In the first month of the new year, Kia sold a total of 10,574 cars in Europe, up 37% on January 2003 and 111% above the 2002 sales level. Read more
06-01-2004
FOURTH RECORD-BREAKING YEAR FOR KIA
Official year-end figures for European car sales in 2003 confirm that Kia achieved record-breaking sales for the fourth year in a row. Across 23 countries in Europe, total Kia sales jumped from 90,021 in 2002 to 126,529 last year - a 41% rise year-on-year. Read more

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