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commenting on current market conditions, bhargava said demand has slowed along with the country's economic growth. "the working environment in india for doing business, not only in the automobile sector but also others, is not happening...even the fmcg business, which is the least recessionary, has been declining over the last few quarters. so you can imagine how it is affecting those who sell high-value durables," he said.
msi posted a 49 per cent jump in net profit at rs 631.6 crore (rs 6.31 billion) in the quarter ended june 30, while net sales fell 5 per cent to rs 9,995.12 crore, the company said july 25. sales in q1 were down 9.98 per cent to 2,66,343 units.
bhargava said the company expects a growth of 4-6 per cent in retail sales and "usually the wholesale sales are about 2 percentage points lower than retail sales."
"we think there will be some improvement in demand as the monsoon has been good. rural sales, which account for 30 per cent of our total sales, is expected to grow and the festive season sales will also help," he said.
besides, elections, which have always helped sales, are also coming, he said. on exports, msi expects to sell around 1.2 lakh units this fiscal, the same as last year. bhargava said demand for diesel vehicles, which had earlier driven sales in the country amid the slowdown, has tapered off due to rising prices of the fuel.
"from a peak of about 61 per cent of total sales at one time, sales of diesel has come down to 54 per cent," he said. msi's share of diesel vehicle sales has fallen to 33 per cent from a peak of 38 per cent, he said.
"the assumption that diesel vehicles will drive growth is unlikely. diesel is no longer the driver of industry as it was some time ago...even when international crude prices come down, it is unlikely that fuel costs will come down in india due to the depreciating rupee," bhargava added.
he said the company has been focusing on cost-saving programmes such as cutting down import content to offset the impact of rupee depreciation. it has also taken suggestions from employees on how to reduce costs.
"we have sustainable cost-saving plans, including implementation of quality circle suggestions from employees. last fiscal, the saving from it was around rs 350 crore from implementation of a total of 3.18 lakh suggestions from a number of employees," bhargava said.
stating that maruti suzuki india has adjusted production to align with the market demand, bhargava admitted that contract workers have been affected. "the company needs a little bit of flexibility and the number of contract workers keeps going up and down, depending on what is happening in the market," he said. after msi started hiring contract workers directly from last year, they account for about 30 per cent of the total strength at the manesar plant, he said.
before the violent incidents at the manesar plant last july, temporary workers hired through contractors accounted for about 50-55 per cent of the over 3,000 workers there. bhargava said the company's plant in gujarat is coming up as planned.
"work on the boundary wall is going on currently. suzuki and our engineers are working on layout as well as product mix. we will start after whole planning is done."
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