At the double: Honda’s Swindon-based workforce grows to 3,500

Posted on 1 May 2012

After the 500 jobs created in South Wales in mid April, Honda has announced a further 500 jobs, to be created at its plant in Swindon, Wiltshire – boosting the plants total workforce to 3,500.

Responding to increased demand for its new hatchback model, Honda decided to expand its workforce at the plant in Marston, near Swindon to 3,500. Production at the Wiltshire plant is forecast to double to 180,000 this year. Increasing production in the UK is a strategy that will reduce exposure to unfavourable exchange rates between the…

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