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Honda Motorcycle talking to trade union to break Manesar plant logjam

Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India (HMSI) on Thursday said discussions were going on with trade union members to find a solution for its Manesar plant, which has been shut indefinitely. The Japanese two-wheeler major decided to suspend operations at the manufacturing facility last week as workers protested for a over a week against the retrenchment of their 200 contractual colleagues. "Discussions are going on...there were 200 contractual workers whose tenure was over and they won't be employed further," HMSI Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Yadvinder Singh Guleria told reporters here when asked to comment on the matter. The stand-off at the facility, which employs around 1,900 permanent workers and 2,500 contract workers, began on November 5 morning when the company management did not allow some of the contractual workers to go inside the plant. HMSI Employee Union leaders had alleged that the company had reduced production of the facility by 50 per cent and is in the ...

HMSI reports 12% YoY sales growth to 521,159 units in October

Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India (HMSI) Thursday said it has logged a 12 per cent year-on-year growth in sales at 521,159 units in October. The company had sold 466,552 units in the same month last year. Domestic sales surged 12 per cent to 490,124 units in October this year, against 437,548 units sold in the same month last year, while exports grew by 7 per cent to 31,035 units, compared with 29,004 units shipped out in the year-ago month, the firm said in a release. Scooter sales grew by 10 per cent to 322,108 units in October, from 293,117 units in the year-ago month, it said. The double-digit growth in October came on the back of the festive season demand, the release said, adding the sales of five lakh vehicles was achieved for the fifth time in the on-going year.

HMSI recalls 56,194 units of Aviator, Activa 125, Grazia on technical issue

The company has identified a suspected quality issue of excessive hardness in Bolt flange 10X42 mounted in the front fork of 56,194 units of these models, HMSI said

India becomes Honda's largest two-wheeler manufacturing base

India has become the largest manufacturing base for Japanese auto major Honda's two-wheeler business, with four units that have a total installed capacity to churn out 6.4 million motorcycles and scooters annually.Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India (HMSI), the local arm of the company, achieved the feat by expanding the capacity of its Narsapura plant on the outskirts of Bengaluru by an additional 0.6 million units, taking its total capacity up to 2.4 million units. "Honda's two-wheeler business spans more than 120 countries worldwide and India is leading the demand. In 2016-17, India alone contributed 28% to Honda's global two-wheeler sales and became the number one contributor to Honda's two-wheeler business," said Shinji Aoyama, Chief Officer, Regional Operations (Asia & Oceania) at Honda Motor Co, in a statement.The plant at Narsapura is now Honda's single largest manufacturing unit in terms of volume globally. It's fourth assembly line, which came at a cost of Rs 600 crore, ..

HMSI sales up 23% in May at 5,37,035 units

Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India had sold 4,36,328 units in the same month last year

HMSI sales up 34% in April at 578,929 units

Exports grew 59% to 27,045 units in April as against 17,030 units in same period of previous fiscal

HMSI launches new BS-IV compliant Dio scooter at Rs 49,132

Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India (HMSI) today launched BS-IV compliant, 2017 version of its scooter Dio priced at Rs 49,132 (ex-showroom, Delhi). The new scooter is also equipped with Automatic Headlamp On (AHO) feature for improved visibility in all conditions, the company said in a statement. "With more convenience of mobile charging socket and compliance with both BS-IV emission norms and AHO; the new 2017 edition of Dio is fresher than ever before...," HMSI Senior Vice President Sales & Marketing Yadvinder Singh Guleria said. Launched in 2002, Honda's Dio scooter has sold over 17.5 lakh units. The new 2017 edition of Dio gets a complete style makeover with new LED position lamp, contrasting dual tone colour body, bolder sportier graphics and two new colours, the company added.

Tapukara plant not hit by labour unrest: HMSI

India's second largest two-wheeler maker Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India (HMSI) has strongly denied the claims of a section of its sacked employees that production at its Tapukara, Rajasthan plant has been hit by labour unrest. "There is no production loss at all at the 1.2-million units Tapukara plant in the first place. Therefore, the claims of these few sacked employees that the operation is hit is factually incorrect. In fact, we are running above our capacity. Moreover, they have no locus standi to make any such claims as they ceased to be our employees in the first week of February this year," HMSI senior vice-president and director, general and corporate affairs, Harbhajan Singh told PTI. Singh further said, "All our plants have either unions or worker committees. There is already a union (HMSI 2F Karamchari Union) at Tapukara and one at Manesar plant too. There is no pending labour dispute at any of our plants and the long-term wage settlements have been executed ...

HMSI agitating workers to hit Delhi streets next week

The striking workers, who were terminated from job in February, are demanding reinstatement of jobs