JALISCO, Mexico – Mexico’s Ministry of Economy has recognized Nissan Mexico’s export performance with the 2015 National Exports Award during a ceremony at the XII Mexican Foreign Trade Congress. Mexico president Enrique Peña Nieto hosted the event, which was recently held in the Mexican state of Jalisco.
“For Nissan Mexico, it is an honor to be the first automotive company in the history of more than five years of the National Exports Award to earn this prestigious honor in the large exporting enterprises category,” said Airton Cousseau, president and managing director, Nissan Mexico.
This award represents the highest recognition granted to top leading companies in terms of foreign trade. Its objective is to stimulate economic growth of the country through exports, therefore contributing to Mexico’s development.
“After being established as the manufacturing leaders in 2014 with more than 800,000 vehicles assembled – as well as consecutive sales leadership for over 75 months in the domestic market – we reaffirm our leadership in the exports segment, achieving last August the milestone of five million exported units since the start of our foreign trade operations in 1972,” said Armando Ávila, manufacturing VP, Nissan Mexico.
Nissan models currently exported from Mexico include: Sentra, Tiida, March, NOTE, Versa, Tsuru, NV200, NV200 Taxi NY, NV250 (VAN), NP300 and the new NP300 Frontier. In FY2014, Nissan Sentra had the largest export volume; it was shipped mainly to the U.S. and Brazil, with a total of 219,336 units.
Last year, Nissan Mexico exported 538,971 vehicles, becoming the largest vehicle exporter for the brand globally. From January to August 2015, a total of 353,428 units have been exported.
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