Saumya Mining MD Ashok Jain 60 crore 100-trucks deal with Mercedes-Benz

Mercedes-Benz India portfolio will experience a rejig over the course of the following five years with business vehicles picking up a significantly bigger lump of the general income pie. At present, trucks and transports contain just 15% of its business.

Universally, business vehicles make for 40% of guardian organization Mercedes-Benz business "Mercedes-Benz will forcefully develop the business fragment with more variations of trucks and transports throughout the following five years. One year from now itself, we are taking a gander at a few new items including long term trucks and city transports and additionally triple-pivot , between city mentors . 

Once the Chennai plant goes on-stream in 2012, we will have both limit and capacity to tackle the volume market with items that are all the more aggressively valued because of higher level of confinement," Mercedes-Benz India overseeing executive Wilfried Aulbur said. He was in the city to sign a Rs 60 crore 100-trucks manage Saumya Mining, taking the recent armada of Mercedes-Benz Actros trucks to 150. Hyderabad-based mine administrator BGR too has an armada of 150 Actros trucks. The two together possess more than a large portion of the 580 trucks that Mercedes-Benz has sold in the nation in the previous over two years.

"We sold 240 trucks a year ago and would like to do comparable numbers this year. In transports, we have possessed the capacity to offer just 15 between city mentors since section into the fragment nine months prior as main clients were hit by the money related emergency. The scene's recuperating and we ought to do great business in both parts one year from now," Aulbur said. Despite the fact that he would not confer numbers, sources said a twofold digit development target had been set by deals groups of both business and traveler vehicles .

Mercedes-Benz confronts hardened rivalry from BMW in the extravagance auto section while Volvo and Scania are its essential rivals in the premium truck market. "Base impulse will develop the business big time. Numerous ideas that don't appear to be achievable now will turn into a reality soon. Once the Chennai plant is operational , we will likewise have the capacity to pander to bigger volume fragments and accomplish critical entrance," he said.

Mercedes-Benz and Hero Group are setting up $1.09 billion light and medium-obligation truck office on a 400 section of land plot close Chennai. At present, Actros trucks are produced at the Pune plant, where the organization additionally amasses Mercedes-Benz vehicles. The new plant was situated to be authorized in 2010 however has been pushed back till 2012 after the worldwide subsidence.