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SME Times News Bureau | 02 Jul, 2020
India's major automobile players reported a sequential uptrend in June, as the rate of sales de-growth decelerated.
Accordingly, two-wheelers and tractors off-take on a sequential basis in June showed narrowing of the de-growth rate.
However, analysts said that the industry is still reeling under the impact of the Covid-19 outbreak.
On
a company specific basis, automobile major Maruti Suzuki reported a
year-on-year decline of 54 per cent in total sales in June 2020. The
company's total off-take declined to 57,428 units from 1,24,708 units
sold in June 2019.
The total sales included 52,300 units off-take
in the domestic market and of 839 units to other OEMs. Exports during
the period under review fell to 4,289 units from 9,847 units shipped out
in June 2019.
Another automobile major, Hyundai Motor India,
reported cumulative sales of 26,820 units in June 2020, of which,
domestic sales accounted for 21,320 units and exports another 5,500
units.
Mahindra & Mahindra reported a decline of 55 per cent
in its total vehicle sales in June 2020. The company's total sales
declined to 19,358 units from 42,547 units sold during the like period
of the previous year.
Commenting on the sales performance, Veejay
Nakra, Chief Executive Officer, Automotive Division, M&M, said:
"The automotive industry has started t o see recovery both in the
passenger and small commercial vehicle segments. T his has been led
primarily by rising rural demand and movement of essential goods across
the country."
Similarly, Tata Motors reported a downfall in total
sales for Q1FY21 to 25,047 vehicles, compared to 1,37,545 units sold
during Q1FY20.
The company's total domestic sales for Q1FY21
plunged by 82 per cent to 23,845 units from the 1,31,879 units sold
during the corresponding period of the previous fiscal.
"As of
June 30, 2020, the Company has cash and cash equivalents of more than
Rs 5,000 crore and undrawn committed facilities of Rs 1,500 crore," the
company said in a statement.
In the two-wheeler space, Hero MotoCorp reported four times wholesale growth on a sequential basis in June.
The
company's wholesale deliveries made to dealerships during the mo nth
under review sequentially grew to over 450,744 units from the 112,682
units dispatched in May 2020.
Furthermore, two-wheeler major
Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India reported a sequential increase of
156 per cent in retail sales for June.
Honda's retails jumped 156 per cent to nearly 3 lakh units in June 2020 from 1.15 lakh units in May.
The
company said the second month of return of economic activity saw
Honda's total two-wheeler dispatches shoot up nearly 4 times to 210,879
units in June compared to 54,820 units in May.
"While normalcy is
yet to return to the industry, there have been signs of hope with sales
volumes increasing by almost 2 to 3 times as compared to May. But this
is still below the June 2019 volume by 49 per cent for PVs," said
Sridhar V, Partner, Grant Thornton India LLP.
"Predominantly,
these have come from the non-metros since the large metros have been
under lockdown with not many dealership networks functioning. The plant
capacity utilisation has also been less with its woes of material and
labour supplies," he added.
According to Shamsher Dewan, VP and
Sector Head, ICRA: "The initial set of data released by the automobile
companies show an encouraging trend in sales in June 2020 over the prior
month. Limited data released by the two-wheeler OEMs and tractor OEMs
indicate healthy ramp up in sales supported by healthy demand from rural
and semi-urban markets.
"On the other hand, heavy commercial
vehicles will continue to report weak sales trends in the near-term and
will only see a gradual recovery."
Suman Chowdhury, Chief
Analytical Officer at Acuite Rating s & Research, said: "Acuite
believes that the current sales of two and four-wheelers are also partly
driven by the lack of availability of public transportation system and
the perceived contagion risks in most of the large cities."
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