While retail sales at dealerships have suffered the full impact of demonetisation, the growth in wholesale volumes comes as dealers had relatively lower inventory after Diwali in October.
Maruti Suzuki India had rolled out its first car -- an M800 -- in December 1983 and attained five million domestic sales in February 2006.
Sales of four- and two-wheelers almost halved in August, compared to the equivalent month last year.
Maruti Suzuki India said on Wednesday it has run out of stock of the two best selling models, Swift and DZire, which are produced at the Manesar plant where it has declared lockout following violence last week.
While Toyota will acquire 4.94 per cent shares of Suzuki, worth $ 908 million, the latter will make a $ 454-million investment in the biggest automaker of Japan. Premium products from the Maruti stable such as the Baleno, Ciaz and Vitara Brezza will be sold under the Toyota brand with small changes.
Net sales during the period under review stood at Rs 10,956.95 crore (Rs 109.56 billion), up 45.57 per cent from Rs 7,527.10 crore (Rs 75.27 billion) in the year-ago period, Maruti Suzuki India said in a statement.
Besides, the company has received large number of enquiries about the Ertiga, priced at Rs 623,000-888,000.
The company had launched the Yaris in May 2018 at a price range of Rs 8.75 lakh and Rs 14.07 lakh (ex-showroom), competing with the likes of Honda City, Hyundai Verna and Maruti Suzuki Ciaz. However, it didn't have a robust response in the market, clocking a cumulative wholesales of around 19,800 units.
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According to the company, the talks that began on Wednesday morning at 11 am continued through the night and were still going on Thursday morning.
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Talks between the management and striking workers at the Manesar plant broke down.
The strike by workers at Suzuki Powertrain India Ltd in support of their colleagues at the Manesar plant has made the situation even more precarious for the Maruti Suzuki India management.
The company has been hit hard, not only by strike of its own workers, but also due to the supply shortage of engines and transmissions from Suzuki Powertrain India Ltd.
With entry-level cars being preferred amid the pandemic, market leader Maruti Suzuki has strengthened its hold, along with Hyundai Motor India.
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Production has been severely hit at the first plant in Manesar since August 29 when the management prevented workers from entering the unit without signing a 'good conduct bond' after alleged 'sabotage' and deliberate quality compromise on cars.
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Continuing slide in demand for new cars in Europe has made Maruti Suzuki edgy about business, but the automobile major is still looking forward to bagging export order for hatchbacks from Nissan this year.
With swanky showrooms and VR-enabled sales platforms Maruti Suzuki, Tata Motors, and Skoda bet on shine and gloss,and place their faith in experiential branding.
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Maruti Suzuki India on Thursday said it is considering an increase in prices of its products from January next year to offset the impact of rupee depreciation.
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The company further said once the situation was brought to its attention, it made the distributor acutely aware of the "inappropriateness of the action".
Manesar plant was rolling about 1,200 cars every day before the first strike hit in June.
The historic 10 millionth car is a Metallic Breeze Blue WagonR VXi, with chassis No 243899 and was rolled out from the company's Gurgaon plant.
The new Swift, which the country's biggest car maker -- Maruti Suzuki India Ltd -- plans to launch next month, is more fuel-efficient. It will come with 1.2-litre petrol and 1.3-litre diesel variants.
Production at Gurgaon plant remained low on Thursday and rolled out only 600 vehicles as against the normal daily production of 2,800 vehicles.
While the latest, fourth-generation Swift makes no pretence of being a performance car or the last word in luxury, what it does stand for is amply evident, notes Pavan Lall.
Maruti Suzuki India has hiked prices of its vehicles across all models, except the entry level sedan DZire, by up to 3.4 per cent.
Good sowing of kharif crops, better minimum support prices, and fewer Covid-19 cases (in villages) will help the rural growth story to continue, says Maruti.
Suzuki, who is in India on a visit, told representatives of Maruti Udyog Kamgar Union, the elected union of Maruti Suzuki India that the management of the Indian arm would not accept any indiscipline in the company.
Top carmaker Maruti Suzuki on Thursday said that Gujarat is a preferred location for the company to set up its new manufacturing plant.
The national capital-based company recorded sales of 82,870 units in the domestic market last month, a 19.15 per cent fall from 1,02,503 units in November, 2010.
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has cleared the draft red herring prospectus (DRHP) of the state-owned Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC). According to investment banking sources, the so-called final observations were issued by the market regulator on Tuesday evening. Following the market regulator's nod to the IPO papers, the insurer can launch its share sale. However, LIC may not launch its IPO immediately given the current volatile market conditions.
At a time when frequent labour unrests are plaguing the Indian auto industry, car market leader Maruti Suzuki was able to save about Rs 160 crore (Rs 1.6 billion) in 2010-11 by implementing suggestions given by its workers. "We have active engagement programmes going on in the company.
So far, the current year has not been great for the leading car exporters from India. In the top five list of exporters -- Hyundai, Ford, Maruti Suzuki, General Motors and Volkswagen -- it is only Hyundai which is clocking a growth.
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