With much of its growth coming from overseas, Harley-Davidson Inc. has opened an Asian headquarters in Singapore.
The maker of Fat Boy and Sportster motorcycles said Thursday it wanted an Asian office, partly to better understand the challenges of doing business in China, India and other fast-growing nations.
"Every market has its own policies around tariffs and taxes, policies around non-economic issues like licensing. So this is where our investment here is really going to help us because we have people closer who know what's happening and what needs to happen, rather than trying to do it from Milwaukee," Matt Levatich, Harley-Davidson president and chief operating officer, told Bloomberg News in Singapore. Full story
