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Brilliance Auto Group (officially HuaChen Group Auto Holding Co., Ltd.) is an automotive manufacturing company headquartered in Shenyang, China.〔(Exiled China tycoon in U.S. clean vehicle plan ) reuters.com, Fri Oct 16, 2009 6:50 am EDT〕 Its products include automobiles, microvans, and automotive components.〔For legal name and private ownership, see (PLACING OF EXISTING SHARES BY CONTROLLING SHAREHOLDER ) Brilliance official site *For products manufactured, see (General Overview ) Brilliance Auto official site〕 Its principal activity is the design, development, manufacture and sale of passenger cars sold under the Brilliance brand. Brilliance Auto Group holds a 42.48% shareholding in the Bermuda-incorporated Brilliance China Automotive Holdings Limited, which is listed on the Frankfurt and Hong Kong stock exchanges.〔For location, see (Exiled China tycoon in U.S. clean vehicle plan ) reuters.com, Fri Oct 16, 2009 6:50 am EDT *For Frankfurt listing, see (BRILL. CHINA AUT. DL-,01 Equity, ISIN BMG1368B1028, WKN 884968, CBA ) boerse-frankfurt.de *For Hong Kong listing, see (BRILLIANCE CHI (1114 ) ) hkex.com.hk〕 Brilliance China Automotive Holdings in turn holds 50% of BMW Brilliance, a joint venture with BMW which produces, distributes and sells BMW passenger cars in mainland China.〔For BMW joint venture, see (【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bmw-brilliance.cn/cn/en/index.html ) *For Toyota technology, see 〕 Brilliance China Automotive Holdings also holds 60.9% of Shenyang Brilliance JinBei Automobile Co., Ltd., which designs, develops, manufactures and sells minibuses sold under the Jinbei brand.〔 In 2010, Brilliance Auto Group and its subsidiaries had an annual production capacity of 800,000 vehicles〔(Brilliance Auto plans to build 30 special-vehicle production bases ) gasgoo.com, November 8, 2010〕 although capacity additions may have come on-line since. In 2012, the company manufactured almost 650,000 vehicles, the 8th-largest production of any Chinese vehicle maker that year. Roughly 70% of production was consumer sedans. ==History== The origins of Brilliance Auto Group can be traced to a state-owned auto factory which, under Yang Rong, became a leading Chinese maker of minibuses between 1991, the year Yang invested in the company, and 2002, when he fled into exile.〔For Yang turning around a state-owned minibus factory and year fled, see (Exiled China tycoon in U.S. clean vehicle plan ) reuters.com, Fri Oct 16, 2009 6:50 am EDT *For year Yang first invested in Brilliance, see (China 100 Richest Businesspeople: No. 3 Yang Rong ) forbes.com〕 In 2003, BMW and Brilliance signed a deal for the production of BMW-branded sedans in China.〔 Its models are, alongside FAW Group Audis, Beijing Benz Mercedes Benzes, and Lexuses, some of the only Western luxury cars to have gained popularity in the Chinese market. Alongside many Chinese automakers looking to enter the US market, Brilliance postponed such plans in 2008 but has briefly sold cars in Europe.〔(China's drive into U.S. car market stalls ) money.cnn.com, October 31, 2008: 6:09 am ET〕 Sales in several European countries stopped in 2010.〔(Great Wall sets sights on US ) globaltimes.cn, September 13, 2010 (Google cache)〕 Brilliance divested itself of the loss-making Zhonghua branch on December 31, 2009,〔(BRILLIANCE CHINA AUTOMOTIVE HOLDINGS LIMITED (1114.HK), Full Description ) reuters.com〕 to its ultimate shareholder Huachen Automotive Group Holdings Company Limited, which continues to sell the vehicles Zhonghua makes. In 2009, the company was the eighth-largest automaker in China.〔(BMW and China partner in $735 mln mainland expansion ) reuters.com, Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:13 am EST〕 That year it sold over 150,000 passenger cars and nearly 80,000 minibuses.〔 In 2010, Brilliance was one of the top ten most-productive carmakers in China coming in ninth and selling a half million units.〔(China Car Market 101: Who Makes All Those 18 Million Cars? ) thetruthaboutcars.com, January 19, 2011〕 It produced 523,500 whole vehicles in 2011, ranking eighth among Chinese vehicle makers in terms of production volume. In 2014, it ranked fifth among all Chinese vehicle makers. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brilliance Auto」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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