Yamaha To Make India Their Manufacturing Hub For Premium bikes

Yamaha R1

Yamaha India plans to make India their export hub. The Japanese auto major wants to manufacture premium and delux segment bikes in India, for exporting these vehicles in global market, as announced by a top company official.

Yamaha India is already exporting some models including YZF-R15 and FZ series to countries like Colombia, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Kenya, Bangladesh and the Philippines.

“We have enough infrastructure to manufacture premium and deluxe bikes for the international market. We will manufacture premium and deluxe bikes for overseas markets from India. There is a huge demand in both the bike segments,” India Yamaha Motor’s National Business Head, Pankaj Dubey, told reporters.

“We are seeing a huge demand for exports which grew at 73 per cent last year. The demand will increase more this year on the back of a huge demand for our bikes in the overseas market,” he said, adding Yamaha has optimum resources to export across models to overseas markets.

The company has increased its market share from 5% in 2006 to 12% at present, in the 2 wheeler segment. Whereas in exports to global markets, the number has improved from 38639 in 008-2009 to 66904 in 2009-2010 a jump of 73 percent.

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April 26, 2010 | By Automonster · Tags: Yamaha India 2 Wheeler Market Share, Yamaha Premium Segment Bikes, Yamaha R1 Red White Model

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3 Responses to “Yamaha To Make India Their Manufacturing Hub For Premium bikes”

Bharath on April 26th, 2010 1:04 pm

If they are going to manufacture premium bikes in India, will R1′s price fall in between 6-8 lakhs? Why haven’t they mentioned anything about the pricing of these bike for indian costumers? Do they just need more profit and money? So they want to use our land, our workmanship, our resources, our people only for the cause of money and not for loyality. More over producing these bikes causes more amount of pollution to our environment, I dont think this is right. This is not a good decision and they should be only allowed if they are going to manufacture these bike in a greener and more environment friendly way. Also they should be asked to bring down the cost of their premium bike.
Bharath on April 26th, 2010 1:07 pm

I am not sure but it will be nice if the environmental department has an eye on this news.
rahulsinha on April 26th, 2010 9:34 pm

At present they only plan to export these bikes. We may expect these bikes to be launched in India once they start production here. But for now Indian customers have to wait. As I am also a bike fanatic even I want superbikes to be launched in India soon.

Cheers

Rahul