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Lucas-TVS to exit India Japan Lighting, sell stake to JV partner Koito

IJL has manufacturing operations in Chennai and Haryana's Bawal and is setting up a third plant at an investment of Rs 500 crore in Gujarat

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Gireesh Babu Chennai
Auto electricals manufacturer Lucas-TVS will exiting its joint venture by selling its 29.9 per cent stake in the company to Japanese partner Koito Manufacturing, for around Rs 148.5 crore.

The joint venture, India Japan Lighting (IJL), was established in 1997 to manufacture and sell automotive lighting equipment. Since then, IJL has been supplying automotive lighting equipment mainly to Japanese automotive manufacturers in India.

"With the changes taking place in the lndian automotive industry, both the partners have agreed that Koito will assume 100 per cent ownership in IJL, towards the end of December 2019, and going forward, they will proceed to focus

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