Maruti Suzuki

Maruti Suzuki Bets On CNG With Rising Petrol Prices!

November 21, 2011

Maruti Suzuki is looking at expanding its CNG offerings in the country, by launching more CNG variants of its existing cars. CNG is considered an eco-friendly fuel and the country’s largest automaker plans to benefit from the rising petrol prices by offering CNG variants, which is a cheaper fuel to run. Maruti Suzuki has received [...]

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Maruti Suzuki Developing Own SUV

November 17, 2011

Maruti Suzuki India Limited, the country’s largest car maker is planning to enter the fast growing market of the SUV segment when all the other players are moving into the segment of small cars and eating into its dominating market share. The company has plans to showcase this SUV at the 2012 Delhi Auto Expo. [...]

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Maruti Suzuki To Double Driving Schools

November 14, 2011

Maruti Suzuki plans to double its driving schools to 400 by 2014, from the current 192. The company claims to have trained over 10 lakhs people, though its structured driving courses. The company attained 5 lakh trainees in its safety initiative ‘National Road Safety Mission’ to promote safe driving. Out of the 5 lakh people [...]

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Maruti Suzuki Hikes Diesel Car Prices

November 14, 2011

Maruti Suzuki has hiked prices of its diesel cars between Rs. 2000 – 10,000/-. The Ritz diesel gets a price hike of Rs. 2000/-, while the SX4 diesel is ow dearer by Rs. 10,000/-. The price hike is on the Swift diesel too which is a real bummer for those who are waiting patiently for [...]

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Maruti Suzuki Plans 20 Models By 2016

November 4, 2011

Maruti Suzuki is facing intense competition from new rivals in the hatchback segment. The company once sold every second car in the country has seen a sharp decline in its market share. Aiming to counter that, the country’s largest car maker has announced a product onslaught with the launch of 20 new models by 2016. [...]

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Maruti Suzuki Eyeing Maharashtra For New Facility

October 28, 2011

Maruti Suzuki, the country’s largest car maker was recently struck by a 14 day labour unrest at its production facility in Manesar, Haryana. After that, the company in efforts to derisk its manufacturing operations is scouting for land in Maharashtra and Gujarat. A senior Maharashtra Government official commented that preliminary discussions were held with the [...]

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Suzuki To Remain Key For Volkswagen

October 28, 2011

Volkswagen is gearing all up to race to the leadership position in global sales overtaking Toyota and GM this fiscal year and at this juncture, it could weighing the relevance of Suzuki at the back of its mind. The current fiscal year is going in favour of Volkswagen because of the suspension of production activities [...]

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14 Day Strike At Maruti Suzuki Ends Finally

October 21, 2011

The strike at Maruti Suzuki’s production facility at Manesar has finally come to an end, after 14 days. The tripartite agreement between the Haryana Government, Maruti Suzuki management and workers has been successfully made. The management will take back 64 permanent workers along with 1200 casual workers. As part of the agreement, two committees will [...]

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Maruti Suzuki Workers Strike Again At Manesar

October 9, 2011

Just last week, Maruti Suzuki workers signed the good conduct bond, ending a month long strike at India’s largest car makers plant in Manesar. However, workers have gone on a flash strike to protest against the management for not letting 1100 casual workers enter the factory premises. The strike spread like wild fire, reaching close [...]

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Maruti Suzuki’s Market Share Hits Ten Year Low

October 7, 2011

Maruti Suzuki, the country’s leading passenger car maker who has continued to rule the passenger car market with its products is slowly starting to lose market share. This is mainly attributed to the long labour unrest that took place in the Manesar plant recently and also the introduction of many new models from the rival [...]

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