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Honda Motorcycle And Scooter India
Workers of Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India's (HMSI) Manesar plant on Wednesday took out a march to protest against the sacking of 2,500 contractual workers at the facility. The workers marched from the plant to Gurugram Mini Secretariat. A worker union leader claimed that around 5,000 workers participated in the protest. The Japanese two-wheeler major had resumed operations at the plant earlier this week with permanent employees joining work. HMSI had suspended operations at the plant from first week of November as workers protested for over a week against the retrenchment of their contractual colleagues. The stand off at the facility, which employs around 1,900 permanent workers and 2,500 contract workers, began on morning of November 5 when the company management did not allow some of the contractual workers to go inside the plant. The sacked contractual workers, though, continue to protest at the site. "Around 5,000 workers participated in the protest march today. Workers fr
Honda, on a neck-and-neck race to become no. 1 player in the over 17-million units a year domestic two-wheeler market, is increasing its focus to the hinterland for network expansion, which has crossed 5,500 now. In the current financial year alone Honda Motorcycle & Scooters India (HMSI) has added 300 dealerships opened and will be opening 200 more through the rest of the year. With 5,550 sales and service outlets, this is biggest and fastest network expansion in the country's two-wheeler market, the company claimed. Most of this expansion has comes happened since FY14 when it had only 2,700 outlets. "During the past 2.5 years, we have added as many as 2,800 outlets, more than doubling its footprint to 5,500 outlets," HMSI president & chief executive Minoru Kato said. "Increasing our penetration in the hinterlands in line with our product strategy is a critical part of our strategy," Kato said, adding, "we have now shifted gears to rural and semi-urban areas. In .