Maruti's exports in May were down 2.4% at 9,089 units
Small car wizard, Maruti Suzuki's supremacy goes back to the year 1983 when the carmaker started its innings in India.
Compact segment sales rise 7.63%, mini segment registers 5.76% dip.
After a year of industrial unrest, the big boys of the automobile industry in the Gurgaon-Manesar belt are set to initiate negotiations to settle wage agreements.
Suzuki Motor Corporation's Indian subsidiary, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd (MSIL), is going to play an increasingly important role in designing and developing global vehicles for the Japanese auto company in the coming years.
While Tata Motors will stop production of commercial vehicles at Pune for three days this week, Maruti Suzuki India will be having its week-long annual maintenance shut down from next week.
In October, MSI recorded domestic sales of 96,002 units compared to 51,458 units in the year-ago period, registering a rise of 86.56 per cent, it added.
Production has not started yet, but there are indications that it will resume today with alternate arrangements like contract workers and hiring technicians.
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Based on the new Swift hatch, 2012 Dzire is selling like pancakes.
As part of this cost-cutting exercise, the company has initiated measures to step up localisation levels and to pare the number of tier-I suppliers over the next two-three years.
General Motors, Nissan Motor India and Volkswagen managed to ride the tide with new launches.
The Ertiga model will be launched in both petrol and diesel versions.
The company had sold 85,565 units in the same month last year.
Suzuki India's Baby B-King (or GW250) is a great option for the Indian subsidiary. Production of this motorcycle -- that's designed for emerging markets -- began in China earlier this month. The muscular GW250 is expected to be priced in the range of Rs 1.6 to Rs 1.8 lakh if brought to India.
The 14-day-long strike at Maruti Suzuki India's Manesar's plant has been called off this morning following a tripartite agreement between the management, workers and the Haryana government.
Maruti Suzuki India on Thursday said it will hire about 500 workers in this fiscal for the second unit at Manesar facility that was operationalised last year.
Workers at Suzuki Powertrain India Ltd and Suzuki Motorcycle India Pvt Ltd, who have also gone on strike in support of their colleagues at MSI, are continuing their stir.
The department had also said it would initiate action to derecognise the unions of SPIL and SMIPL.
"Export will not be better in this fiscal. It will remain more or less the same as last year or may be even worse. Situation in many global markets has not improved yet," Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) Chairman R C Bhargava said on the sidelines of Hero Mindmine Summit.
Workers across Suzuki Motor Corporation's three subsidiaries in the country are standing firm on their decision to continue an indefinite sit-in strike at the company's Manesar facility.
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.
A group of casual workers have been sitting in front of the Manesar plant, asking the company to let them rejoin work.
The country's largest car maker Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) on Thursday said it is considering increasing prices of its products from next week to offset the impact of rupee depreciation.
Labour Minister Shiv Charan Lal Sharma visited Gurgaon on Wednesday to meet senior department officials to decide on the likely course of negotiations.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Friday announced raising of excise duty to 12 per cent from 10 per cent at present.
Sources close to Maruti management said the company has agreed to reinstate the 11 workers whose services were terminated for instigating the strike.
Swift is the highest selling car from the Maruti stable sicne its launch in 2005.
Workers' representatives largely giving in on good conduct bond; want revocation of most dismissals, suspensions.
Osamu Suzuki, chairman, Suzuki Motor Corporation, is likely to meet Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi to finalise plans to set up a manufacturing plant for Maruti Suzuki India.
The ongoing elections and overall subdued market sentiment continue to affect the sales momentum
Maruti Suzuki on Thursday reported 6.54 per cent increase in sales at 1,18,949 units for February. The company had sold 1,11,645 units in the same month last year.
Out of the four, he said, two will be new models and two will be upgrades.
The firm has suffered production loss of about 1,200 units, valued at around Rs 60 crore.
Around 23 per cent of all units sold by the company in the domestic market currently are diesel cars.
After rolling out five compressed natural gas models last year, India's largest passenger car maker, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd, is mulling a CNG platform for all its makes.
Maruti launched the Baleno in May 2016 and the new Swift in February this year
Dynamics of auto business will change if the government ends diesel subsidy to passenger vehicles.
MSI's exports increased by 54.34 per cent to 14,386 units in January, from 9,321 units in the year-ago period.
Rebutting reports that the company is "moving out of Haryana and shifting its base to Gujarat" after its decision to purchase land in Gujarat, MSI said: "The company's plan to invest in Gujarat started much before the industrial unrest situation at Manesar."
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