Auto Parts Asia — August 2017

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infrastructure. “Most importantly we
are focusing a lot on team building

• we have a young, dynamic and
  aggressive team that is highly
  competent and aligned with our
  goals. We want to strengthen this
  team further, especially in the
  engineering space, with different skill-
  sets, in order to realise our vision to
  be the largest bus building company
  in India. We have 55 designers
  and engineers already working in
  four locations at Zaheerabad and
  Belgaum, for manufacturing support
  and product development, and in
  Mumbai and Goa, for strategic and
  confidential operations.”

The MG Group has almost all the
OEMs as its clients. Then what is
the driving force and scope for the
company to expand on the lines of its
vision? Kamat believes that there are
many unexplored market segments.
The market is constantly evolving;
customer expectations are changing
and aspirations are rising. Several
multinational foreign companies are
coming to India. They set up factories
to tap the domestic and export
markets. In India, the bus penetration
is less than one for 1,000 people,
while in the US and the European
countries it is between 14 and 16. The
bus industry in India is sure to boom.

“We have been very fortunate that
our strength and capabilities have
been recognised and appreciated
by our current OE customers. Our
relationship will grow and become
even stronger as we move forward.
There is a big emerging market for
premium coaches and buses out
there which we want to tap, to meet
our vision,” he said.

MG Group has made an impressive
and convincing entry into this vast
premium segment with ‘Mammoth’,
the bus launched at the Bus World
Expo in Bengaluru last year. It is MG
Group’s flagship product on a MAN
chassis for the premium segment,
completely designed, engineered,
developed and built by the group and

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Anil M Kamat