BRAZIL: Kia importer assembles truck in Uruguay

Author: Fernando Calmon | 20 August 2010

The Gandini Group in Itu, 100km (62 miles) from São Paulo City, which has represented Kia in Brazil since 1992, has just set up an assembly line in Uruguay to build the Bongo light truck at a rate of 12,000 units yearly with two shifts.

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