Chennai: As part of its 2020 target of 2 million units in sales, passenger vehicle market leader Maruti Suzuki is tying up with business schools to extensively train its dealership manpower. Under the programme, the company has already trained over 500 managers in FY17-18 and will train another 1000 in the next financial year.

The three-day residential programmes are co-curated by Maruti and the faculty of IMT Ghaziabad and MDI Gurugram.

Dealerships, being the key point of contact between car makers and customers, often shape the success or failure of manufacturers. Keeping this in mind, Maruti Suzuki, the country’s largest car maker, has launched an exercise to train managers from its dealerships at leading business schools like Gurgaon’s Management Development Institute (MDI) and Ghaziabad’s Institute of Management Technology (IMT). More than 500 such managers have already been trained these institutes.

Country's largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) on Monday said its highest selling model Alto has crossed the 3.5 million cumulative sales milestone.

Brand Alto has clocked a growth rate of 6 per cent in 2017-18, MSI said in a statement, adding that it has garnered a market share of 33 per cent in the ongoing financial year.

NEW DELHI: India's largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki's ever-popular entry level hatchback crossed the landmark of 35 lakh in sales units in February, the company said on Wednesday. In fact, the Alto is the highest selling car for the company, not just in India, but across the globe, Maruti Suzuki Senior Executive Director RS Kalsi said.

The country's largest car firm Maruti Suzuki on Thursday launched the third generation version of its popular model Swift with price starting at Rs 4.99 lakh. The new model comes with an introduction of auto gear shift technology.

Swift, available in both petrol and diesel, has been priced between Rs 4.99 lakh to Rs 7.29 lakh for petrol manual version, and Rs 5.99 lakh and Rs 8.29 lakh for diesel manual variant.

CHENNAI: Maruti Suzuki and Hyundai Motor India (HMI) are the No. 1 and No. 2 passenger vehicle companies in India, and have been arch rivals for more than two decades. But imagine what the Indian car market would have looked like if Maruti took over Hyundai India... Sounds unbelievable? But that's exactly what nearly happened back in 1999 when HMI's parent was battling the worst of the Asian crisis.

Japan's Suzuki Motor Corp on Monday announced a 68 percent jump in operating profit in the third quarter due to ongoing growth in automobile and motorcycle sales in India, its biggest market, as well as in Europe and at home.

Operating profit at Japan's No. 4 automaker came in at 86.9 billion yen ($790.36 million) in October-December, jumping from 51.85 billion yen a year earlier and exceeding a median forecast of 77.49 billion yen from nine analysts polled by Thomson Reuters.

he country's largest car maker Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) today reported 4.8 per cent increase in total sales at 1,51,351 units in January compared to 1,44,396 units in the same month of 2017.

The company's domestic sales stood at 1,40,600 units, up 5 per cent from 1,33,934 units in January 2017, MSI said in a statement.

Suzuki’s Hansalpur plant in Gujarat has emerged as the state’s largest manufacturer of cars in less than two years of it commencing operations. It has consequently also overtaken the Sanand unit of Ford and Tata Motors in volume.

The Hansalpur unit became operational in early 2016 with the production of Baleno, a bestseller from Maruti. The plant is now getting ready to manufacture the new Swift hatchback.

NEW DELHI: India's largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki will start making its first affordable electric vehicle (EV) by 2020 based on technology from parent Suzuki Motor, ahead of products developed in partnership with Toyota.

The company and its parent are focusing on in-house capabilities but are also looking for partners to put in place the ecosystem for electric vehicles, Maruti Suzuki managing director Kenichi Ayukawa told ET in an interview. The Japanese carmaker will not rely solely on its partner Toyota's expertise to build EVs from the ground up.

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