Honda Manufacturing Ghana has held a ceremony to commemorate the start of automobile “production” at its plant in Tema.

HMG is the second Honda plant in Africa following Nigeria.

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Initial annual capacity is just 500 units, suggesting SKD assembly from imported kits, and actually began with the HR-V small SUV in December 2023.

Honda sees West Africa as a growth market and is operating in Nigeria, Ghana, Benin, and Cote d’Ivoire.

It established a local subsidiary in 2013 and began assembly in 2015. Ghana was started through distributors in 1997 with a local office established in 2019.

“Although production volume is still small, [we have] established a local subsidiary and begun production on our own,” Honda said in a statement.

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