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Honda Motor Company's Nobuhiko Kawamoto Named Automotive Industries' Executive of the Year

25 February 1998

Honda Motor Company's Nobuhiko Kawamoto Named Automotive Industries' Executive of the Year

    RADNOR, Penn., Feb. 25 -- Nobuhiko Kawamoto, Honda Motor
Company's president and chief executive officer, has been chosen Automotive
Industries' Executive of the Year for 1998.
    The award is given to automotive industry executives who have made a great
impact on the auto industry.
    "Kawamoto's theory of co-evolution is the heart and soul of Honda," says
Marjorie Sorge, editor-in-chief of Automotive Industries.  "It is his
commitment to local communities and the environment that has made Honda a more
globally autonomous operation and a leader in the industry today."
    AI's editors chose Kawamoto because he has led Honda through a series of
strategic changes that have been instrumental to its success.  Under
Kawamoto's direction, the changes have led to a more efficient company that
has produced a series of successful new vehicles and a record fiscal year in
1997.
    Kawamoto joined Honda in 1963, following his graduation from Tohoku
University, with a Masters of Science degree in mechanical engineering.
    Automotive Industries is a monthly magazine serving the automotive
original equipment market.  It is published by Chilton Company, headquarted in
Radnor, Pennsylvania.

SOURCE  Automotive Industries