Yamaha Motor Co. Ltd is surely one of the most popular motorcycle manufacturing companies in the world, owning an impressive number of bikes distributed all around the world. The motorcycle division of Yamaha was founded in 1955, Genichi Kawakami being the first president of the newly-founded department. During the same year, Yamaha launched its first motorcycle, the YA-1, which was equipped with a 125cc engine.
The time passed by and Yamaha founded and opened an impressive number of offices and R&D centers in multiple locations of the world, no matter if we're talking about Portugal, Mexico, Hungary, Austria or China. Moreover, in 1999, no less than nine Yamaha Motor factories and offices won the ISO14001 certification.
In the recent few years, Yamaha continued its impressive growth but it also recorded important wins in the competitions it participated. In 2004, Yamaha won the MotoGP rider championship title with the help of Valentino Rossi, the famous multiple MotoGP World Champion who won two titles with Yamaha. Getting back to the company's motorcycle manufacturing process, in 2007, the total number of motorcycles produced in Thailand reached 10 million units. |
