Reports

Four wheeler sales fail to revive despite Cenvat cut

6 July, 2009

Maruti Suzuki’s A2 segment reported a 5.3 percent growth on a month-on-month basis, while sales plummeted 6.9 percent YOY. Hyundai Motors’ overall sales reported a growth of 48.9 percent YOY mainly on the back of strong exports and in..

Influential figures of 2008

18 February, 2009

In this section, Auto Monitor attempts to showcase both: stalwarts of the automotive domain, who looked beyond the slowdown with a composed sense of resilience and those who found themselves in headlines for all the wrong reasons in year that can be ..

Two wheeler sales go from bad to worse

10 February, 2009

The main reasons behind the disappointing sales volumes of the companies during the month were on account of, (i) primarily due to festive season falling in the month of October-November last year instead of September-October this year (ii) inventory..

Maruti delivers A Star

10 February, 2009

Even in a global recession, the study sees increasing preference for smaller cars in Europe and market-share gains for Suzuki. We bring you the report with permission from the authors..

Low base effect leads to positive growth in August

22 September, 2008

BAL’s overall sales for the month of August 2008 have registered growth of three percent y-o-y to 2,00,955 units as against 1,95,707 units in the month of August 2007...

OEMs increasing focus on non cyclical businesses to combat slowdown

9 September, 2008

The recent overhaul of Tata Motors’ plans to finance the JLR acquisition is an exemplary indicator of how concerned manufacturers are on matters of equity dilution...

Fiem Industries set for bigger growth

9 September, 2008

Pedal Box Assembly is a new product line for Fiem Industries and will add new dimensions in its business diversification policy...

Automotive Industry in India

8 September, 2008

The Indian automotive industry has grown at an impressive rate over the past few years spurred by a large and growing domestic demand, proven product development capabilities, stable economic policies, improving quality standards, and competitive man..

Crisil study highlights opportunities for engineering outsourcing services

8 September, 2008

In its Annual Review, CRISIL assesses the state of the Indian ITeS industry, based on external and internal headwinds, the direction the industry is expected to take in order to maintain its current growth rate...

Increasing effectiveness through fully automatic car painting

6 September, 2008

Driven by the desire for more flexibility and effectiveness, the introduction of robots instead of the painting machines and the automation of the interior painting with robots began in the 90s...