Maruti has recently disclosed plans to open an additional 1500 outlets in India. This move will take the total number of outlets from an existing 2700 to a whopping 4200. For this, they are planning to invest an amount of Rs 250 Crores (An amount Maruti intends on sharing with its network partners.)

Maruti intends to add the new outlets in 1,300 plus cities and if Maruti is to be believed there will be a service outlet every twenty-five kilometers across the country in the near future. Senior executives at Maruti have made plans to grow the network by fifty five percent and there will be Maruti Authorized Service Station available in new cities in addition to the current one thousand three hundred cities.

Needless to say the number of employees shall also be seeing a jump. Maruti foresees an increase of 55000 employee manpower from the current 33000 to keep up with its existing plan of manufacturing one million units by 2013. Mr. Pankaj Narula, the service executive officer of Maruti Suzuki, also confirmed this.

Maruti already has a share of fifty percent in the domestic market. The cars sold by Maruti Suzuki vary from a price range of Rs. 2 lakhs  to Rs.16 lakhs.

Daimler India Commercial Vehicles (DICV) is planning to open a new factory in Chennai. Not only will this facility be used for Daimler’s Commercial Vehicular Production but Daimler also plans on using this facility to manufacture vehicles for other players on contract basis. Daimler India Commercial Vehicles is the subsidiary of world’s largest truck manufacturing company, Daimler. The company has already invested Rs 4,400 Crores in setting up this manufacturing unit at Oragadam in Tamil Nadu.

Once Daimler India Commercial Vehicles are set up they will also consider the possibility of contract manufacturing for other players. This was confirmed by Mr. VRV Sriprasad, the marketing, sales and after sales Vice President of Daimler India Commercial Vehicles.

Currently, the company’s focus is to make their significance felt in the Indian commercial vehicle market. The manufacturing unit at Oragadam will cover an area of four hundred acres and will have the capacity to manufacture thirty six thousand units annually. Daimler shall also introduce a wide variety of trucks ranging from six to forty nine tonnes by 2012 possible as a wholly new brand name.

Nissan Motor India is begun exporting its popular compact car, Nissan Micra to Europe. Nissan Micra was launched in India recently. The company has confirmed that the first major consignment consisting of three thousand eight hundred and eighty six cars have left for Europe last week on Tuesday.

There are plans to export the car to at least one hundred countries, which includes Middle Eastern and African countries. The company made its first consignment in the month of April which included shipment of six cars. This shipment was made to Barcelona from its Oragadam factory Chennai. This factory has been set up in collaboration with Renault, the French car manufacturing company.

Nissan is one of the first international car manufacturer to make use of the eastern gateway port of India.  Nissan considers this as a spectacular moment for the company as they are starting a new innings in the field of exports.  The Chennai plant has now officially become a venue for both domestic market and exports. This was confirmed by Mr. Kiminobu Tokuyama, the managing director of Nissan Motor India. Nissan has plans to export more than one lakh units of car in the financial year of 2010-11.