MARUTI SUZUKI = Q3 FY 2010-11 SALES = EXCELLENT PROGRESS = CAPACITY ADDITIONS IN JAN'2012 / JAN'2013

MARUTI SUZUKI

SALES IN Q3

Maruti Suzuki’s Sales performance during Q3 was quite good as can be seen from its figures below. 

The rate of growth was 17% in December,2010, 28.2% in November, 2010 and 39.2% in October,2010 over the corresponding months of 2009. 

In December, the growth rate was perhaps subdued a little because of the shutting down of the plant from 27.12.2010 to 01.1.2011 for maintenance. Therefore, it is to be seen from Janury,2011, if the company will maintain the ‘over 1 lakh’ Sales per month, it earlier clocked in October and November,2010.

The company has two manufacturing facilities located at Gurgaon and Manesar, south of New Delhi. Both the facilities have a combined capability to produce around 1.2 million (1,200,000) passenger car units annually.

Another plant with 2,50,000 capacity is expected to become ready by Jan’2012 and yet another with 2,50,000 by around Janury2013. So, by how much can Maruti scale up its production and sales beyond the 1 lakh capacity mark before the capacity expansion takes place, is to be watched.

However, even if it maintains its over 1 lakh cars per month, it is a huge, creditable achievement for this market leader.

DECEMBER 2010 SALES

Maruti Suzuki sold a total of 99,225 vehicles in December 2010, which is 17% above that of Dec’2009.

This includes 9,756 units of exports.

The company had sold 71,000 vehicles in the domestic market in December 2009.

In December 2010, sales were up 23.5 per cent in A2 and 19.4 per cent in A3 segment. In C segment, company recorded a growth of 67.4 per cent.

The company was closed for its bi-annual maintenance shutdown for 6 days during December 2010, from 27th December 2010 to 1 January 2011.

The sales figures for December 2010 are given below:

Segment	Models	In December			Till December
		2010	2009	% Change	2010-11	2009-10	% Change
A1	M800	1798	2574	-30.1%	18982	24594	-22.8%
A2	Alto, Wagon-R, Estilo, Swift, A-Star, Ritz	64492	52236	23.5%	585523	459507	27.4%
A3	SX4, D'zire	9362	7843	19.4%	92418	69613	32.8%
A: Total Passenger Cars		75652	62653	20.7%	696923	553714	25.9%
B: MUV	Gypsy, Grand Vitara	270	259	4.2%	4698	2835	65.7%
C: Van Type	Omni, Versa, Eeco	13547	8088	67.5%	118729	68859	72.4%
Domestic		89469	71000	26.0%	820350	625408	31.2%
Export		9756	13804	-29.3%	107315	105535	1.7%
Total Sales		99225	84804	17.0%	927665	730943	26.9%

NOVEMBER 2010 SALES

 Maruti Suzuki sold a total of 1,12,554 vehicles in November 2010. This includes 10,051 units of exports.

The company had sold 87,807 vehicles in November 2009.

For the second consecutive month, the company crossed 1 lakh units sales mark in the domestic market in November 2010 with 1,02,503 units.

In November 2010, the sales in A2 segment grew by 32.2 per cent while in the A3 segment the sales growth was 27.2 per cent, as compared to November 2009. The sales growth in the C segment was 76.5 per cent over November 2009.

The sales figures for November 2010 are given below:

Segment	Models	In November
		2010	2009	% Change
A1	M800	2440	3040	-19.7%
A2	Alto, Wagon-R, Zen, Swift, A-Star, Ritz	74063	56005	32.2%
A3	SX4, D'zire	11115	8741	27.2%
A: Total Passenger Cars		87618	67786	29.3%
B: MUV	Gypsy, Grand Vitara	199	253	-21.3%
C: Van Type	Omni, Versa, Eeco	14686	8320	76.5%
Domestic		102503	76359	34.2%
Export		10051	11448	-12.2%
Total Sales		112554	87807	28.2%

OCTOBER 2010 SALES

Maruti Suzuki sold a total of 118,908 vehicles in October 2010, growing 39.2 per cent over the same month last year. This includes 11,353 units of exports. In October 2009, the company had sold a total of 85,415 vehicles including 13,864 units for export markets.

For the first time, the company crossed 1 lakh units sales mark in the domestic market in October 2010, touching 107,555 units. The previous highest domestic sales was 95,148 units in September 2010.

The October 2010 sales marked the highest ever numbers in all large volume segments:

A2 segment: 77,502 (previous highest 68,921 units in Sep10)

A3 segment: 11,621 (previous highest 10,883 units in May10)

C segment: 15,379 (previous highest 14,157 units in Aug10)

In October 2010, the sales in A2 segment grew by 50.7 per cent while in the A3 segment the sales growth was 32 per cent, as compared to October 2009. The sales growth in the C segment was 91.8 per cent while sales in B segment were up 151.2 per cent over October 2009.

The sales figures for October 2010 are given below:

Segment	Models	In October
		2010	2009	% Change
A1	M800	2631	3124	-15.8%
A2	Alto, Wagon-R, Zen, Swift, A-Star, Ritz	77502	51437	50.7%
A3	SX4, D'zire	11621	8804	32.0%
A: Passenger Cars Total		91754	63365	44.8%
B: MUV	Gypsy, Vitara	422	168	151.2%
C: Van type	Omni, Versa, Eeco	15379	8018	91.8%
Domestic		107555	71551	50.3%
Export		11353	13864	-18.1%
Total Sales		118908	85415	39.2%

* Eeco was launched in January 2010.

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