Maruti Suzuki India Ltd.

Maruti Suzuki India, country’s largest car maker, has so far received 13000 bookings for recently launched hatchback Celerio. The company is now planning to start second shift at Manesar unit to make celerio, the waiting period of which on an average is 12 weeks. Maruti currently produces 270 units of Celerio per day.

The company has revised the pricing of its recently launched hatchback Celerio in India, after the announcement of a reduction in excise duty by finance minister P Chidambaram. The Celerio, which was originally launched at a starting price of Rs 3.90 lakh, is now available at Rs 3.76 lakh.

Maruti Suzuki has reported 11.06% fall in its production to 109,342 units in January 2014 as compared to 122,936 units in same month last year. Of total, the company has manufactured a 44,411 vehicles under mini segment (including Alto, A Star, Wagon R), down by 22.21%, as against 57,095 vehicles manufactured in corresponding month previous year.