Honda Motor Co., the world’s biggest motorcycle maker, said it stopped producing the bikes in the U.S., a step the company announced last year.
Production at the Marysville, Ohio, factory has ended, Bill Savino, a spokesman for the Tokyo-based company, said today. Honda said in February 2008 that the plant would close in this year’s first half, with the work shifting to Japan. Motorcycles for the U.S. will be imported, the company said then.
The Ohio motorcycle plant opened in 1979 and was Honda’s first factory in the U.S.
Honda in April forecast a profit drop of 71 percent this fiscal year as the global recession and tighter credit cripples demand for autos. The company’s revenue from motorcycles fell 9.4 percent in its year that ended in March, less than the 17 percent drop in total sales.
The company’s halt in U.S. motorcycle production was reported earlier today by Nikkei English News.
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