8.55 (0.05%) Maruti Suzuki India, the country’s largest car maker is planning to focus more on services rather than on new car sales, in order to beat the recent market slowdown. With this initiative, automaker aims to keep its channel partners solvent and help them make profits during the downturn. During FY 2012-13, company’s large and omnipresent service network managed to service more than 17 million cars, which included accidental repairs as well.
The company has 3,000 workshops in more than 14,000 cities, making it as the largest sales service network in the Indian car industry. The company's dealerships and workshops offered services to 50,000 cars every day. The company service provides employment to around 90,000 people.