Company profile

Future of Suzuki Motor

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Rank
687
| Quantumrun Global 1000

Suzuki Motor Corporation is a Japanese global corporation headquartered in Minami-ku, Hamamatsu, Japan which focuses on producing four-wheel drive vehicles, all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), wheelchairs, automobiles, motorcycles, outboard marine engines, and a variety of other small internal combustion engines. In 2014, Suzuki was thought to be the 9th largest auto manufacturer by production globally.

Home Country:
Industry:
Motor Vehicles and Parts
Website:
Founded:
1909
Global employee count:
62992
Domestic employee count:
Number of domestic locations:
1

Financial Health

Revenue:
$3180000000000 JPY
3y average revenue:
$3046666666667 JPY
Operating expenses:
$672000000000 JPY
3y average expenses:
$611000000000 JPY
Funds in reserve:
$450088000000 JPY
Market country
Revenue from country
0.41
Revenue from country
0.44

Asset Performance

  1. Product/Service/Dept. name
    Motorcycle
    Product/Service revenue
    233889000000
  2. Product/Service/Dept. name
    Automobile
    Product/Service revenue
    2878520000000
  3. Product/Service/Dept. name
    Marine and power products
    Product/Service revenue
    68253000000

Innovation assets and Pipeline

Global brand rank:
372
Investment into R&D:
$140000000000 JPY
Total patents held:
305
Number of patents field last year:
9

All company data collected from its 2016 annual report and other public sources. The accuracy of this data and the conclusions derived from them depend on this publicly accessible data. If a data point listed above is discovered to be inaccurate, Quantumrun will make the necessary corrections to this live page. 

DISRUPTION VULNERABILITY

Belonging to the motor vehicles and parts sector means this company will be affected directly and indirectly by a number of disruptive opportunities and challenges over the coming decades. While described in detail within Quantumrun’s special reports, these disruptive trends can be summarized along the following broad points:

*First off, the plummeting cost of solid-state batteries and renewables, the data crunching power of artificial intelligence (AI), the increasing penetration of high-speed broadband, and the falling cultural attraction to car ownership among millennials and Gen Zs will lead to tectonic changes in the motor vehicle industry.

*The first giant shift will arrive when the price tag for an average electric vehicle (EV) reaches parity with an average gasoline vehicle by 2022. Once this happens, EVs will take off—consumers will find them cheaper to run and maintain. This is because electricity is usually cheaper than gas and because EVs contain significantly less moving parts than gasoline-powered vehicles, resulting in less strain on internal mechanisms. As these EVs grow in market share, vehicle manufacturers will shift most-to-all of their business to EV production.

*Similar to the rise of EVs, autonomous vehicles (AV) are projected to attain human levels of driving capability by 2022. Over the following decade, car manufacturers will transition into mobility service companies, operating massive fleets of AVs for use in automated ride-sharing services—direct competition with services like Uber and Lyft. However, this shift toward ridesharing will lead to significant reductions in private car ownership and sales. (The luxury car market will remain largely unaffected by these trends until the late 2030s.)

*The two trends listed above will result in the reduced volume of vehicle parts sales, negatively impacting vehicle parts manufacturers, making them vulnerable to future corporate acquisitions.

*Moreover, the 2020s will see increasingly devastating weather events that will further drive environmental awareness among the general population. This cultural shift will lead voters to pressure their politicians to support greener policy initiatives, including incentives to purchase EV/AVs over traditional gasoline powered cars.

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