Hyundai Motor’s 2021 global sales fall short of target amid chip shortage

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Employees of Hyundai Motor Group leave after the company's new year ceremony in Seoul
FILE PHOTO: Employees of Hyundai Motor Group leave after the company’s new year ceremony in Seoul, South Korea, January 2, 2020. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji

January 3, 2022

SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Co said on Monday its 2021 global sales were 3.89 million vehicles, just short of its target of 4 million vehicles.

The South Korean automaker set its 2022 sales target at 4.32 million vehicles.

“In 2022, Hyundai Motor plans to expand its market share and strengthen profitability through efforts to stabilise chip supply and demand, adjust vehicle production schedules, strengthen electric vehicle lineups as well as optimising sales profit and loss by region,” Hyundai Motor said in a statement.

In October, Hyundai Motor cut its 2021 global sales target by about 4% to 4 million vehicles from 4.16 million vehicles amid a global chip shortage.

(Reporting by Heekyong Yang and Joyce Lee; Editing by Tom Hogue and Stephen Coates)

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