30 | AutoPartsAsia | AUGUST 2017COVER STORY
T
he commercial vehicle
manufacturers such as
Mahindra, Ashok Leyland,
VECV, Tata Motors and
MAN, though diverse in technology,
capacity and applications, have
one thing in common. They all
have bodies built by the MG Group,
India’s largest privately-owned
bus body-building company with a
workforce of over 2,300. The Group
that completed 20 years in the bus
building business last year, has built
100,000 buses since inception.
One of the key strengths of MG
Group is its capability to provide
total solutions to its customers, from
concept-to-market with the shortest
cycle time, even by developing new
products. The group is passionate
about meeting the consumers’ three-
fold needs of Complete Commitment,
Detail-Driven Concepts, and Quality
Output. MG Group stands out for its
involvement in understanding the
customers’ requirements and meeting
it to the minute detail.“To be the largest bus building
company in India,” is the vision of
Anil M Kamat, Managing Directorof MG Group. The implication of
this vision is more than quantitative,
which the company already is, as
the largest privately-owned bus
building company in the country. But
for Kamat the vision of superiority is
more about handling complexities
with the biggest clientele and
partnerships, having the largest
variety of products within a single
group. “We want to differentiate from
others by continuing to produce a
whole range of products built on
every chassis available in the market.
Our operations should be much
more complex and challenging
for the variety, product-mix, anddiversity of applications. We have
laid the foundation to achieve our
vision, though, I think, we are still
about three years away. We hope to
achieve our vision by 2020 and then
probably revise our vision statement
to something more befitting then,” he
told AutoParts Asia.
How will the company accomplish
this goal? Kamat says that many
things are happening in the bus
industry and there is going to be
a definite surge in demand as
mass transportation solutions
are the need of the country. The
company is gearing up to meet this
with appropriate capacities andColumbusSchool Bus