Ashok Leyland
Ashok Leyland Limited is chennai based 2nd largest manufacturer of commercial vehicles automobile company in India. It is a 4th largest manufacturer of buses in the world and the 12th largest manufacturer of trucks globally. It is involved in Commercial vehicles and related components. Through its subsidiaries, it is engaged in manufacturing and trading in Medium and Heavy Commercial Vehicle, Passenger vehicles, Light Commercial Vehicles, automotive aggregates, vehicle financing and engineering design services. It offers a range of 18 to 80-seater buses under categories, such as city application and electric buses.
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%.
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