Homegrown auto major Mahindra & Mahindra today said creditors and shareholders of SsangYong Motor Co (SMC) have given a final approval to a rehabilitation plan, thus paving way for its $ 463 million acquisition of 70 per cent stake in the ailing South Korean firm.
From helping their employees infected with the Covid-19 virus to vaccinating them or supporting the families of those who might have succumbed to the infection, several companies in India are trying to do their bit in this difficult time. Some have even widened their support net to include all stakeholders as well as an extended community. To the families of the employees it lost to Covid-19, Noida-headquartered IT services and consulting company HCL Technologies is, for instance, paying salary for a year, medical insurance for three years and extending support for their children's education for five years.
The Scorpio-based pick-ups, engineered by M&M specifically for the US market, were set to reach North American shores three years ago, but launch dates were postponed more than thrice thereafter before the company's marketing and distribution partner Global Vehicles Inc filed a lawsuit against it for the delay.
Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd, the country's largest utility vehicle maker, will roll out a sub-four metre compact model of Verito, the rechristened Mahindra Logan, which is expected to attract only 10 per cent excise duty instead of the earlier 22 per cent. Also, it will have a lower price tag.
Just over a year after breaking up its joint venture with Renault, Mahindra & Mahindra on Monday said it has renamed the 'Logan' sedan as 'Verito', thus completely dropping the French automaker's badge from the entry level sedan.
Company has received orders for 20-25 GA8s from China and hopes to deliver at least two planes before the year-end.
Despite a rise in input costs, leading car-makers refrain from hiking their price.
While directly holding city-based utility vehicle and tractor major Mahindra & Mahindra responsible for a potential job loss to the tune of 8,300 in the United States, its former partner Global Vehicles has called for stricter actions.
After the easing of lockdown in mid-May, auto companies were able to resume production in a phased manner, but the ramp-up was slow due to a broken supply chain, and lockdown-induced restrictions.
Issues relating to shortage of key automotive components, which were supposed to be sorted out a month ago, will hit production even for the next two quarters, as slow ramp-up and discrepancies in tyre prices impact output.
Automaker Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) has offered to rectify a problem in the gearbox of some of its 110cc Stallio motorcycles. The Stallio marked the entry of the maker of utility vehicles and tractors into the highly competitive motorcycle market.
Automaker Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) has offered to rectify a problem in the gearbox of some of its 110cc Stallio motorcycles.
Mahindra had bought Renault's 49 per cent stake in the troubled Mahindra Renault Private Ltd, while gaining limited autonomy to the Logan sedan, in an effort to turn around the loss-making company.
A tribunal in London last month confirmed that it had an exclusive jurisdiction to resolve all disputes related to the relationship between M&M and Global Vehicles. It directed the US distributor to end all current litigation, said M&M.
While it is difficult to attribute any one single reason to this, low cost, less depreciation, easier loans, and ready availability of good models are some of the reasons behind this boom.
Mahindra & Mahindra, the utility vehicle and tractor market leader, says it will leave no stone unturned in the fiercely competitive two-wheeler market. After last week's launch of two indigenously built motorcycles, the company wants to position at least one new product in every segment of the 9.37-million-units-a-year market.
Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd, India's largest sports utility vehicle and tractor maker, is bullish on its latest acquisition of REVA Electric Car Company.
Making a debut in India with an SUV, Citroen's products in the next couple of years will clearly chart and define its destiny in what has become both a vibrant but also a daunting market for foreign entrants, says Pavan Lall.
By wonderful coincidence, the first UID card handed out today by the Prime Minister and Mrs Gandhi was backed by Mahindra Satyam technology, says Anand Mahindra.
While sales of compact cars, including models such as Swift, Celerio, Ignis, Baleno and Dzire declined, sales of utility vehicles, including Vitara Brezza, S-Cross and Ertiga, increased 26.3 per cent to 19,177 units as compared to 15,178 in the year-ago month.
Competition in the two-wheeler market is fiercer than ever before and Mahindra's only motorcycle, Stallio, is bearing the brunt of it.
In the month of August Indian car industry posted sales of 160,794 units and the industry grew 33 per cent.
Mahindra Satyam still has to face 13 Class Action Law suits filed in the US. Analysts peg the cash outflow for these cases to be around $100 million. Satyam also has to get large marquee outsourcing deals, and is yet to restate its accounts which will give investors a good picture of where the company stands.
Keeping with its global ambition, homegrown farm equipment-to-software group Mahindra & Mahindra said it will embark on a new brand positioning to project a singular voice for various entities under its umbrella.The group has decided to use 'Rise' as the new brand position.
M&M is preparing a plan for carbon 'footprinting' of all group companies. That includes carbon emissions made even during air travel by employees.
The Indian passenger car market is booming like never before. With almost every car major already present in the Indian car market with various models, India is one of the hottest automobile markets in the world.
For smaller MFIs, resuming operations is more difficult because they haven't got any fresh bank credit sanctioned from their lenders.
M&M is in the final stages of acquiring troubled South Korean automaker Ssangyong Motor Company.
A group spokesperson declined to comment on the size of the forthcoming deal. The market capitalisation of the company is $400 million (Rs 1,840 crore).
"We have hiked prices last week by 1.5 to 2 per cent on all our vehicles due to higher commodity costs," Mahindra and Mahindra President (Automotive and Farm Sectors) Pawan Goenka said.
The Czech carmaker said the assessment of the locks will be done in 12 minutes only
What will it take for Tesla to plug and play in India? Sector pundits say it's a mix of strategy, getting the price right, timing, the right talent, and above all, patience.
Tata Group firm Indian Hotels and auto major Mahindra & Mahindra are the only Indian brands to figure in the list of 27 top 'Great Brands of Tomorrow' compiled by Credit Suisse.
Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd said it formed only a strategic tie-up with Lockheed Martin, and that details of a working arrangement are being worked out.
Mahindra, which emerged as the preferred bidder for SsangYong in August 2010, will now hold a 70 per cent stake in SMC, for which it has shelled out $463 million (about Rs 2,105 crore).
Mahindra & Mahindra's IT arm Mahindra Satyam plans to double its Middle East workforce in the next two years as part of a $24 million (87.8 million dirhams) global branding push, a senior company official has said.
The company's management and the union had entered into a long-term settlement in 2009 and the next wage revision for the workmen is due in February 2013.
With the Thar, M&M has come full circle. In a market where every other vehicle has an SUV tag, the company plans to stick to its core competence of making rugged, true-blue, all-terrain SUVs, and marks a fresh beginning for the 75-year-old firm that enjoyed an indomitable position in the SUV segment till 2012, reports Shally Seth Mohile.
The car, sold under the Mahindra-Renault badge, will see a rebranding exercise and be manufactured and distributed by M&M alone.
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