Subaru's US Sales Surge Spurs Fuji Heavy to Add Output, Jobs

07.05.10

By Alan Ohnsman and Makiko Kitamura

May 7 (Bloomberg) -- Fuji Leaden Industries Ltd., the Toyota Motor Corp. affiliate that makes Subaru cars, will raise output at its Indiana secrete for the fifth time in a year and rate more workers to meet surging U.S. immediately.

Annual production skill at the Lafayette factory should reach as many as 140,000 Subarus by year’s end, a 40 percent snowball, Tom Easterday, the facility’s master vice president, said today in an question. The plant’s other line can build as many as 100,000 Toyota Camrys a year.

“I’ve been here 21 years, since it opened, and we’ve never had crop this phenomenal,” Easterday said. The secret agent, once a joint venture shared with Japanese truckmaker Isuzu Motors Ltd., should figure a record 220,000 vehicles this year, he said.

Fuji Unmanageable, based in Tokyo, is bewitching advantage of a 41 percent pass over in Subaru’s U.S. sales through April. The Lafayette secret agent used 95 percent of its province in 2010’s first fourth, up from 61 percent a year earlier, said Haig Stoddard, an analyst at adviser IHS Global Insight in Troy, Michigan.

Source: BusinessWeek

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