Suzuki using Maruti's muscle to grow its two-wheeler business in India

Most of the engines used by Suzuki's two-wheelers in India are manufactured by Maruti at its Manesar plant

Suzuki Motor Corporation (SMC), which owns the country’s biggest carmaker, is effectively using the strengths of Maruti to expand its two-wheeler business in the world’s largest market and is moving towards sustained profitability.

India has been SMC’s biggest market for cars but it is now also the biggest market for two-wheelers. The country replaced China as SMC’s biggest two-wheeler market last year. India now accounts for close to one-fourth of SMC’s global two-wheeler sales of 2 million units. SMC is consciously exploiting synergies with Maruti Suzuki to expand the two-wheeler business. Almost 10 per cent of SMC’s two-wheeler sales in India