Marathon Motors Engineering

Not to be confused with Marathon Motor Works.
Marathon Motors Engineering, Plc.
Company typePrivate limited company
IndustryAutomotive industry
Founded2009
Headquarters
Addis Ababa
,
Ethiopia
Key people
Melkamu Assefa (CEO)
Haile Gebrselassie (Chairman)[1]
ProductsAutomobiles
Websitemarathoncars.com

The Marathon Motor Engineering, Plc. is a joint venture between South Korean automobile manufacturer Hyundai Motor Company and Ethiopian former long-distance runner Haile Gebrselassie. The company is located in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and was founded in 2009. The firm is the official general importer of Hyundai vehicles in Ethiopia.

For the first time, the company was presenting itself on the press conference of the Haile Resort presentation in Awasa. Currently, it cooperates with Hyundai running the erected automobile assembly plant in Nifas Silk-Lafto, Addis Ababa, which had been inaugurated in February 2019.[2] As of July 2020, it already started assembling the electric Hyundai Ioniq.[3]

  1. ^ marathoncars.com
  2. ^ "Hyundai Ethiopia assembly plant inaugurated in Addis Ababa". borkena.com. 21 February 2019. Retrieved 2 November 2020.
  3. ^ Kuhudzai, Remeredzai Joseph (27 July 2020). "1st Ethiopian-Assembled All-Electric Hyundai Ioniq Rolls Out Of Haile Gebrselassie's Marathon Motor Engineering Plant". CleanTechnica. Archived from the original on 29 July 2020.