NEW DELHI: Hinduja Group flagship Ashok Leyland today reported a 4.93 per cent increase in total sales at 14,067 units in February.

The company had sold 13,406 units in the same month last year.

Sales of heavy and medium commercial vehicles grew by 4.88 per cent to 11,329 units last month as against 10,801 units in the year-ago period, the company said in a statement.

Hinduja Group flagship company and commercial vehicles major Ashok Leyland Ltd (ALL) is eyeing a one-third share of the intermediate commercial vehicles (ICV) market in the country within the next couple of years.

ALL, which is already in the process of expanding its international footprint through establishing manufacturing assembly sites, is also targeting one-third of its total volumes coming from foreign shores in the next five years.

Ashok Leyland Ltd (ALL) has reported an eight per cent growth in M&HCV sales in the month of January 2017 as against nine per cent drop in December 2016 sales.

The company has sold 12,056 units in January 2017 as compared to 11,208 units, in January 2016, an increase of eight per cent.

After exiting the Light Commercial Vehicle (LCV) joint venture it had with Nissan in September last year, Ashok Leyland on Wednesday launched a newly modified LCV, 'Partner', and an Intermediate Commercial vehicle (ICV), 'Guru'.

The company has developed both the cabin and powertrain for Partner, Vinod K Dasari, managing director, Ashok Leyland said.

DUBAI: Hinduja Group flagship Ashok Leyland has launched Oyster staff bus in Saudi Arabia, the third product from India's second largest commercial vehicle manufacturer in the kingdom in six months.

The automaker had launched Falcon 66 seats and 56s school bus in July, Oyster midi-41 seater school bus in November and now come up with Oyster 33 seater staff variant.

Ashok Leyland Ltd, the country's second-largest commercial vehicle manufacturer, is expecting the fourth quarter to see good growth numbers while the current quarter growth could be tepid, owing to the government's demonetisation move and other issues, according to a senior management official.

The demonetisation impact will go off and the Euro IV pre-buy is expected to start in the fourth quarter, which would help good growth, said Gopal Mahadevan, chief financial officer of Ashok Leyland. He was speaking on the sidelines of the Tamil Nadu Finance Conclave organised by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).

Ashok Leyland's Pantnagar facility has been conferred with a global award for implementation of total quality management, thereby making it the first commercial vehicle (CV) manufacturer from outside Japan to have won the Deming Prize.

The global award is the oldest and most recognised quality award in the world and is conferred upon companies with established processes of management for business operations.

Ashok Leyland Limited has reported a 71 per cent jump in net profit at Rs 294.41 crore during the September quarter in the current financial year as against Rs 172.20 crore in the corresponding period last year.

The company, which had reported an impairment loss of Rs 157 crore in the second quarter of 2015 owing to its investments in joint ventures and subsidiaries, did not report any such loss during in the same period this year.

Ashok Leyland sold 28% more commercial vehicles in the month of October this year than it did in the same period last year.

Ashok Leyland sold 12,533 units of its commercial vehicles in the month, compared to 9,803 units sold last year.

Ashok Leyland Ltd has bagged order worth $170 million (around Rs 1,140 crore) from the United Republic of Tanzania. The order includes supplying of vehicles, gensets, spares and equipment for development of workships, training modules and allied equipments to be fitted on ambulances.

Vinod K Dasari, managing director, Ashok Leyland commented that exports is an import part of Ashok Leyland's strategic intent to globalise its product portfolio and derisk itself from supplying only into India.

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