The market leader of cars in India, Maruti Suzuki India Limited, has touched the mark of one million vehicles this week when it comes to export. The millionth red coloured car of Maruti, the A-Star left the coast of Mundra with the 2,200 other vehicles for different international destinations that includes Malta, Algeria, Switzerland, Sweden in Europe and Morocco and Egypt in thenon-European countries. This particular millionth car will be sold in the country of Denmark.
The Managing Director & CEO of Maruti Suzuki India Limited, Mr. Shinzo Nakanishi said on this significant achievement, “To achieve the mark of the millionth car exported to the offshore market is a very remarkable milestone for our firm. Just two years ago Europe was a very strong destination for our firm. We have arranged our strategy for export in accordance with the changed situations of the export markets we deal with. The markets for our products have shifted in a significant way from Europe to the countries which are Non-European. With the mark of Suzuki Celerio and Suzuki Alto the A-Star has been doing pretty well in the international automobile market of the globe. We have also worked our way to identify the alternative markets of Non-European countries as well. This particular strategy has worked completely in the favour of the firm and also helped in retaining the export volume after the European countries decided to withdraw the incentives which were scrappaged. We are glad that vehicles manufactured at the Maruti Suzuki India have received excellent customer acceptance in the markets of overseas automobile sectors.”
With the latest shipment sent for Algeria, the nation also attains the landmark of being the only nation to have imported a little more than 1,00,000 units of cars from the Maruti Suzuki brand. The shipment sent this week has more than 1,500 units for Algeria. Maruti Suzuki exported more than 1.47 lakh units of car in 2009-2010, out of which more than 75 per cent were sent to the European automobile market. However, by the year 2011-2012 the export ratio to Non-European countries went up by 66 per cent from the previous 23 per cent. In the coming future the firm intends to enhance its presence in the new markets that includes the ASEAN region.
Today, a million Maruti Suzuki cars run in more than 125 nations across all the five continents. It is very interesting to know that the A-Star has emerged as the quickest moving brand in the export market. It has registered an export figure of over 3,00,000 units within the first 38 months since its first shipment sent in the month of January 2009. With more than 136 different variants the A-Star has exported to more than 100 nations across the globe. In augmenting pattern of sales, A-Star is currently followed by the Maruti Alto in sales with more than 2,50,000 units and the Maruti 800 with an approximately 2,26,000 units.
