Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that it plans to open a new “infrastructure region” in the world’s second most populous country sometime in 2016. “Tens of thousands of customers in India are using AWS from one of AWS’s eleven global infrastructure regions outside of India,” said Andy Jassy, senior vice...
America's Jeep Returns to India with $280 Million Investment
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles announced that it will invest approximately $280 million in its manufacturing joint venture, Fiat India Automobiles, with Tata Motors. The manufacturing facility in Ranjangaon, located around 31 miles (50 km) from Pune in the western state of Maharashtra, will support the production of a new Jeep vehicle. Production is...
Why Did Tata Motors succeed in integrating Jaguar Land Rover?
Very soon after Tata Motors bought the UK companies Land Rover and Jaguar from Ford Motor Company, the world was hit by the financial crisis of 2008. Most automotive experts thought that Tata could have acquired these assets for much less. Others felt that a low cost maker of sub-compacts...
Automotive Mechatronics Supplier Develops Products in Pune
Marquardt, a Germany-based maker of mechatronic components, has set up an R&D center at Hinjewadi in Pune in the western state of Maharashtra. The facility will collaborate on products for the global automotive segment. “In the past year we have received our largest contract in India from Tata Motors. Starting...
Localizing to Specific Customer Needs Spells Success for Cummins India
Located 42 miles from Pune in the state of Maharashtra is a village of rice growers, who for many decades had to trek to a neighboring village to get their raw rice de-husked because their village did not have the power supply to run the dehusking machine. Enter Cummins Inc.,...
Jeep Enters India with Wrangler
Another American icon, Jeep, will be on the Indian roads again in 2015 with the Cherokee and the Wrangler being the first entrants imported into the country. Fiat Chrysler Automobiles will begin SUV brands central to its global expansion, in India in 2015, the brand’s chief, Mike Manley, speaking at...