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  • Announcement of Personnel Changes

    IWATA, November 13, 2020 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. announces the following personnel changes, effective November 15, 2020
     
    Personnel Changes in Group Companies
    (Name) (New position) (Current position) KOBAYASHI,
    Osamu President of Yamaha Motor do Brasil
    Ltda.,
    and President of Yamaha Motor da

  • YMVSV Leads Series A Funding Round for Canvass Analytics Inc.

    IWATA, November 11, 2020 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo: 7272) announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary based in Silicon Valley in the United States, Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley Inc. (YMVSV), led the funding round for Canvass Analytics Inc. (Canvass) founded in 2016, headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
    Summary of YMVSV Official Release

    YMVSV aims to conduct the

  • Yamaha Motor Introduces New Personnel Systems Promoting Diverse Working Styles - Three new systems promoting “My Work Style, Yamaha’s Work Style” starting in 2021 -

    IWATA, November 11, 2020 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. announced today that it will introduce three new personnel systems in January 2021 as part of its initiatives to promote work-life balance: 1) A work-at-home system as a special measure for living with COVID-19; 2) a special “life support leave” system for taking leave from work on an hourly basis for injury and illness treatments, long-term car

  • Revision of Forecast Year-End Dividend and Forecast Consolidated Business Results for the Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 2020

    IWATA, November 9,2020 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo: 7272) announces that at the
    Board of Directors meeting held today, the Company has made the decision to revise the forecast consolidated business results for the full fiscal year ending December 31, 2020 as well as to revise the forecast year-end dividend.
    1. Revised Forecast Consolidated Business Results for the Full Fiscal Year
    (Ja

  • Kohta Nozane Wins Career-First All Japan JSB1000 Title

    November 2, 2020—This weekend’s MFJ Grand Prix at Suzuka Circuit marked the final round of the 2020 All Japan Road Race Championship season, and the Yamaha Factory Racing Team’s Kohta Nozane took 2nd in Race 1 on his YZF-R1 to clinch his first-ever JSB1000 championship crown, sealing the third consecutive title for Yamaha in the class following Katsuyuki Nakasuga’s 2018 and 2019 titles. With th

  • Yamaha Announces 2021 Supercross and Motocross Teams

    October 19, 2020—Yamaha Motor Corporation, USA (YMUS), is pleased to announce a three-year partnership with the Monster Energy Star Yamaha Racing team to field their campaign in both the 450 and 250 classes of the Monster Energy AMA Supercross and Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championships. The Monster Energy Star Yamaha Racing 450 team will be spearheaded by Aaron Plessinger and newly-crowned 2020

  • Announcement of Personnel Changes

    IWATA, October 14, 2020 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. announces the following personnel changes, effective October 15, 2020
     
    1. Personnel Changes in General Managers
    (Name) (New position) (Current position) OHASHI,
    Takeshi General Manager of General Affairs
    Division, Human Resources &
    General Affairs Cente

  • Yamaha Confirms Exciting Young Rider Line-Up for 2021 WorldSBK Campaign

    October 12, 2020—Yamaha Motor Europe is delighted to confirm that the reigning FIM Supersport World Champion Andrea Locatelli will join Toprak Razgatlıoğlu at the Pata Yamaha WorldSBK Official Team for the 2021 FIM Superbike World Championship campaign. With Garrett Gerloff remaining at the GRT Yamaha WorldSBK Junior Team for 2021, where he will be joined by Japanese ace Kohta Nozane, it means

  • Dylan Ferrandis Wins First 250MX Title to Make It Two for 2020

    October 12, 2020—On October 10, 2020, at Round 9, the final round of the AMA Motocross Championship held at Fox Raceway in Pala, California, the Monster Energy/Star/Yamaha Racing team’s Dylan Ferrandis, who competed in this season’s 250MX class on the YZ250F, took 2nd/5th for 3rd overall in the event to win his first ever AMA Motocross championship title. It was his second title of the year aft

  • Yamaha Motor Europe intends to reinforce a cooperation with Fantic Motor, including transferring all issued shares of its group company Motori Minarelli to Fantic Motor

    IWATA, October 8, 2020 - Yamaha Motor Europe N.V. (hereinafter “YMENV”), a subsidiary of Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo: 7272) that sells products in Europe, began consultations with the European Works Council (EWC) concerning its intent to transfer all issued shares of Motori Minarelli S.P.A. (hereinafter “MM”), a YMENV group company manufacturing motorcycle engines in Italy, to Fantic Motor S.

  • Yamaha Motor receives its first design award for electric personal mobility TRITOWN - Winning Excellent Product Design at “German Design Award 2021” -

    IWATA, September 30, 2020 - Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Tokyo: 7272) announced today that its electric personal mobility concept model TRITOWN has been given the title “Winner” in the Excellent Product Design category of the “German Design Award 2021.” This is the first time that TRITOWN has won a design award.
    TRITOWN is a compact electric two-front-wheeled stand-up riding mobility style unit

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