Ashok Leyland a whisker away from becoming global CV major: Dheeraj Hinduja

He says the company is gearing to set globally benchmarked standards in reliability and after-market support, and that there will be added thrust on cost control, cash generation and ROCE

After having a good year, the country's second largest commercial vehicle maker, Ashok Leyland, has said it is bullish about 2018-19 and that it would outpace industry growth, which is expected to be around 10 per cent in fiscal 2019.

Dheeraj G Hinduja, chairman, Ashok Leyland, said that 2017-18 has been another year of stellar performance by the company when it pushed the limits even further with the highest ever sale of 174 ,873 units , crossing the 100,000 Medium & Heavy Commercial Vehicles (M&HCV ) truck sale in a y ear and rolling out it 200,000th Light Commercial Vehicles