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Honda Goes Into Crowded China Market

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Honda (NYSE: HMC) is the latest multinational car company to attack China’s vehicle market.  People’s Republic drivers bought 18 million cars and light trucks last year, well ahead of the 12.5 million sold in the US–the No. 2 market.

But, the growth of sales in China has disappeared, primarily due to the end of an incentive program set by the central government. Global manufacturers will have to content to compete with a large, but no longer fast-growing pie. Honda says it will offer 10 new models in China by 2015.

The Japanese company can be added to a dozen others like Nissan and Ford (NYSE: F) which expect tremendous gains. Each will have to gain market share in a market dominated by GM (NYSE: GM), VW,and increasingly aggressive local companies. Honda may want to double sales, but it has nothing other than projections which are nearly impossible to support.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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