Ashok Leyland offers a range of trucks, which include long haul trucks, distribution trucks, and mining and construction trucks. It designs, develops and manufactures defense vehicles for armed forces. It offers Light Vehicles, which include PARTNER, DOST, STiLE and MiTR. Ashok Leyland has operations in India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Mauritius, the Middle East and Africa. The company offers power solutions for electric power generation, agricultural harvester combines, earth moving and construction equipment, and marine and other non-automotive applications. The company manufacturing in 9 plants; including one each at Great Britain and Ras Al Khaimah (UAE). The company's Joint Venture partners include John Deere (USA) for Construction Equipment, Continental AG (Germany) for Automotive Infotronics and the Alteams Group for the manufacture of high-press die-casting extruded aluminum components for the automotive and telecommunications sectors.

History -Ashok Leyland founded in 1948 by Raghunandan Saran as a Ashok Motors. Raghunandan Saran had previously negotiated with Leyland Motors of England for assembly of commercial vehicles as he envisioned commercial vehicle were more in need at that time than were passenger cars. During the early 1980s Ashok Leyland entered into a collaboration with Japanese company Hino Motors from whom technology for the H-series engines was sourced. Today Ashok Leyland is a holding company & it is the flagship company of the Hinduja Group. In 2007, the Hinduja Group also bought out Iveco's indirect stake in Ashok Leyland. The promoter shareholding now stands at 51%.