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Maruti sales dip 30.5% on production shutdown

Maruti Udyog Limited recorded a 37.3 per cent drop in sales of its passenger cars in June at 14,715 units as a result of production constraints arriving out of the ten-day half-yearly maintenance shutdown at its plant.

The company sold 14,715 units during the month, down from 23,469 units the previous month.

The company, however, led the b-segment during the month with total sales of 5,152 units, including 3,972 units of Zen and 1,180 units of Wagon-R.

It recorded a 52.7 per cent decline in sales of the bread-and-butter M-800 at 5,298 units from 11,137 units a month ago, while sales of Omni dropped 28.2 per cent from 4,557 units in May to 3,270 units in June.

Its B-segment sales in June represented a 41 per cent decline over the previous month. Zen sales dropped 39 per cent at 3,972 units from 6,516 unit, while Wagon-R sales were down 46.8 per cent at 1,180 units as against 2,221 units a month ago.

In the c-segment, MUL sold 995 units in June, 2000, down 12.2 per cent from 1,134 units the previous month. Esteem accounted for 756 units, down 20.2 per cent from 948 units, while the company sold only 239 units of Baleno, a drop of 38 per cent from 386 units in May this year.

A company statement issued in New Delhi on Monday said, ''Despatches of Maruti vehicles took place only for 15 days during June, subsequent to the shut-down being longer this year due to relocation of some workshops at its factory in Gurgaon. This coupled with excellent response to MUL initiative (price cut) will help the company go in for second shift in its third plant, enhancing its production capability by 15 per cent.''

UNI

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