Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India Pvt. Ltd. (HMSI) is the 100% subsidiary of Honda Motor Company, Japan – the World’s No.1 two-wheeler company. Honda started Indian 2Wheeler operations in May 2001. In the 16 years since then, Honda has grown to become India’s 2nd largest two-wheeler company with over 30 million happy customers in India. Today, every 6 seconds a new customer joins the fast expanding Honda family in India.

April - June, 2017-18 performance: Starting FY’17-18 with a bang, Honda 2Wheelers India sold a total of 1,560,340 units in April-June 2017 with a solid 21% growth over April-June 2016.
On the domestic front, Honda sold a total of 1,062,113 units with 19% growth – more than double the 8% growth of domestic industry in April-June 2017. Honda’s accelerated growth made it the Highest Market share Gainer with 3% gains (30% in domestic market) and Highest Volume Gainer of industry (More than 68% of new industry volumes are now coming from Honda alone).
Honda’s automatic scooter sales grew 22% to 973,725 units. Creating new records, Honda 2Wheelers India also created new records by becoming the NEW No. 2 brand in domestic motorcycle segment. Honda’s motorcycle sales grew 15% from 440,760 units to 504,753 units in YTD basis. On the exports front too, Honda’s two-wheelers exports zoomed by 44% to 81,862 units in April-June, 2017.

FY’2016-17 SALES PERFORMANCE:
Honda 2Wheelers India created a new world record and became the First 100% two-wheeler subsidiary of Honda Motor Company, Japan to cross 5 million sales landmark in a single fiscal year!
Honda’s total sales grew at 12% to all time high total of 5,008,230 units over 4,483,495 units sold in FY’15-16. Honda’s total automatic scooter sales crossed 3 million mark (3,351,576 units) for the first time ever with 16% growth. Additionally, Honda’s exports grew by an overwhelming 42% to 283,163 units in FY’16-17 despite export industry de-growing by -6% in the same period.

CURRENT PRODUCTION:
Honda started production in 2001 from its first plant of 1.65 million unit capacity in Haryana. In 2011, Honda expanded to 2nd plant in Rajasthan with 1.2 million annual capacity. In 2013, came the 3rd plant in Southern state of Karnataka with 18 lac annual capacity. Continuing to rapidly expand to meet demand, Honda inaugurated its new 4th plant- a scooter-only plant in India in Gujarat with 1.2 million units annual production capacity.
Overall, this took Honda’s total production capacity to 5.8 million units by FY’16-17. In mid of 2017, Honda has planned additional 0.6 million units line expansion which will take total capacity to 6.4 million units in FY’2017-18.

HONDA 2WHEELERS INDIA ANNUAL PRODUCTION CAPACITY: