General Motors, a brand known for the number of brands it used to cover a few years back, has shown its potential in India by record setting sales in January 2010. GM is planning to double the capacity of its Talegaon plant to 400 units from 200 units by March 2010, which earlier was scheduled for the month June 2010. To meet the production needs and to produce an output of 400 units the plant will follow the convention of double shifts as being followed by the Halol plant in Gujarat, and will hire 800 more personnels making the total number of employees to 4800.
The Talegaon plant is held with the responsibility of producing Chevrolet Beat and Chevrolet Spark while the Halol plant is busy producing Chevrolet Tavera, Chevrolet Optra and Chevrolet Aveo. The Halol plant is currently working in two shifts producing 250 units a day and is also being planned for a third shift. The reason for such a step is certainly the record number of sales that the company made in January 2010 with 9421 units, the highest ever in Indian Market.
The company has a tie-up with Chinese Shanghai Automotive Industry which delivers LCV and passenger cars and out of which the LCV will be deferred from GM’s banner while all other will bear the banner of Chevrolet.
The most important goal for every company is supposed to be Increase in and for this year GM plans to sell 1.2 lakh units than the 70,000 units in 2009 with an increase of 70 percent and the Joint Venture is expected to bring a boost to the existing sales with 3.0 lakh units while 20% of the net sales will constitute the exports made to other parts of the world including Asia-Pacific region. Nepal and Bhutan.
