Hero MotoCorp Limited is engaged in designing, developing and manufacturing motor vehicles in India. The company is very much rich in its services and possessing a brand recognition in India.Hero MotoCorp Limited mainly provides scooters and motorbikes to their different customers. The organization also makes the different spare parts, as well as engines of the scooters and bikes. These parts and engines are sold to different motorbike and scooter manufacturing companies.
Hero MotoCorp Limited is also engaged in exporting different parts and motorbikes to different countries, such as Africa, Asia, Central, and South America. The company was previously known as Hero Honda Motors Limited and was founded in 1984. The company is headquartered in New Delhi.
About Company Information:
Hero MotoCorp Limited is a collaboration between the Japanese company, namely Honda Motors and the Indian company Hero Group. In 1983 the Japanese automobile manufacturing company had signed one of the most successful agreements with the Hero Group and made the world’s largest two-wheelers manufacturing. It was considered as one of the most anticipated joint ventures of the world.
In 1985, Hero MotoCorp Limited began the production of their first motorcycle. This had helped the organization to increase its brand recognition, as the bike namely CD100 had been very popular among the youth of India. This year, the production in Haryana’s Dharuhera plant was commissioned.
In 1989, the Hero MotoCorp Limited had released the new motorcycle model, namely Sleek. In 1991 the company launched a new model namely CD100SS in the Indian market, and it became the crowd favourite of that time. This model had new features that could provide comfort to the customers. In 1995, the most popular product of the company, namely Splendor, was launched in the Indian market.
During 1997-1999, the Hero MotoCorp Limited launched their new manufacturing plant at Gurgaon. It was the second manufacturing facility of the organization. In the same period, the company launched a new motorcycle brand, namely Street, in the Indian market. In 1999, the revolutionary model Hero Honda CBZ had been introduced in the Indian market. This bike became the first motorcycle to acquire a 150 cc engine. This move shook the Indian industry of the two-wheeler vehicles.
In 2001, another new model, namely Passion, was launched by the Hero MotoCorp Limited. On the same year, another model Joy was launched in the same way by the company. This caused a rapid increase in the sale of motorbikes. In 2002, the organization created two new models of two-wheeler vehicles, namely Ambition and Dawn in the Indian market.
In 2003, the company launched several new upgraded models of two-wheelers. CD Dawn, Passion plus and Splendor plus were such examples, launched in the Indian market, which had partially conquered the two-wheeler industry of the nation. In the same year, the organization inaugurated Hero Honda Karizma, with an engine capacity of 223cc, which came out as a challenge to any rival companies of Indian automobile industries.
In 2011, Hero and Honda signed a new agreement that manifested as the renaming of Hero Honda to Hero. In 2012, the company had gone for a strategic partnership with USA-based Erik Buell Racing. A deal was also made in the same year with a European technology and design partner.
In the year of 2015, the company had introduced an entirely new commuter, namely HF Dawn. This was a time when the company for the first time started to operate a facility centre outside the country at Villa Rica in Columbia. In 2016, Hero MotoCorp Limited inaugurated their new model of splendor bikes named Splendor iSmart 110. In the same year, the company started to launch their limited edition bike, namely Achiever 150.
In 2017, the Hero MotoCorp Limited Launched three new models of the motorcycles named 110cc Passion Pro, 110cc Passion XPRO and Super Splendor. In this year the organization created a record of selling 7,207,363 units of bikes in a single year.
How Hero Motocorp Ltd, is categorised as an Auto Sector, and Auto - Two and Three-wheelers Industry :
The Auto sector includes several types of companies that deals with the automobile industry. Besides auto manufacturers, it consists of a broad range of companies which focuses on manufacturing parts that go into cars, two-wheelers and trucks. It also includes a few other companies that are responsible for vehicle sales, rentals or repairs.
Hero Motocorp Ltd is categorised as an Auto Sector, and Auto - Two and Three-wheelers Industry. The Two Wheelers and three-wheeler segment in the auto sector dominates the market in terms of volume owing to a thriving middle class and a young population. Furthermore, the increasing interest of the firms in exploring rural sales drives the growth of the industry.
Hero Motocorp Ltd, Competitors and Sector Peers:
Hero MotoCorp Ltd. HEROHO
Kinetic Engineering Ltd. KINENG
Kinetic Motor Company Ltd.[Amalgamated] KINMOT
Maharashtra Scooters Ltd. MAHSCO
Majestic Auto Ltd. MAJAUT
Scooters India Ltd. SCOOIN
