Hyundai Motor Group was included in Time's '100 Most Influential Companies of 2025.'
The American news magazine Time announced the 'TIME100 Most Influential Companies of 2025' on the 26th local time, and Hyundai Motor Group was included. Hyundai Motor Group was also listed in the 'Leaders' institutional sector.
Time, a leading American news magazine, has announced the '100 Most Influential Companies in the World' each year since 2021.
Among the candidates nominated by correspondents, editors, and industry experts from around the world, Time's reporters select 20 corporations that have achieved outstanding performances over the year, categorized into five institutional sectors: Leaders, Disruptors, Innovators, Titans, and Pioneers, based on influence, innovation, and leadership.
After Kia was selected in the 'Innovators' institutional sector in 2023, Hyundai Motor Group made the list for the second time and was the only domestic corporation to enter the top 100 this year.
Time noted, 'Hyundai Motor Group continues to prove that achieving the third highest sales volume in 2024 was no coincidence,' adding, 'Once viewed negatively in the U.S., Hyundai Motor Group's new models, such as electric and hybrid vehicles, have received consecutive praise and accolades, leading to a surge in sales,' referring to Hyundai Motor Group as the 'automotive dark horse.'
Hyundai Motor Group recorded a combined sales volume of 7.23 million vehicles last year, ranking third in automotive sales, and has been selected five times in the past six years for the prestigious World Car of the Year (WCOTY), demonstrating its product competitiveness. Notably, it has continued steady growth in the U.S. market, expected to achieve cumulative sales of 30 million vehicles within this year.
Since starting sales in the U.S. market in 1986, Hyundai Motor Group recorded approximately 29.81 million vehicles (Hyundai approximately 17.39 million, Kia 12.42 million) by May of last year.
Additionally, last year, Hyundai sold 911,805 vehicles and Kia 796,488 vehicles, achieving the highest sales ever for both companies in the U.S., and continuing about an 11% growth as of May this year. Hyundai Motor Group is making an annual investment of 24.3 trillion won, the largest in its history, and plans to invest $21 billion in the U.S., its biggest overseas market, over the next four years by 2028.
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