Yamaha plans to make India premium motorcycles hub

India Yamaha Motors, the country's leading premium motorcycles manufacturer, is planning to make India as a global hub for the premium motorcycles. The Indian arm of Yamaha Motors has already two manufacturing plants in the country, which are in Noida and Surajpur. The company wants to utilize the facilities to the maximum output to get a level in order to manufacture bikes for the export markets. Yamaha Motor is currently exporting their product line-up that includes Crux, G5, Alba, Enticer, Gladiator Type SS, FZ-16 and the YZF-R15. The all new India made motorcycles are exported to countries like Bangladesh, Indonesia, Colombia, Sri Lanka, Philippines and Kenya. India Yamaha Motor has supplied 66,904 bikes to Yamaha's global operation in the previous year (2009/10). In India, it has contributed of 38,639 units of motorcycles in the same year. The company had posted a 73 percent growth in exports market in the last fiscal year and can expect that the demand of bikes will increase in this current financial year. After the launching of its flagship YZF-R15 and FZ-16 motorcycles in the Indian auto market since 2008, the company's sales ratio have been continuously on the rise and is also getting an excellent response from the exports market. On the other hand, Yamaha Motor is also planning to increase the range of their productivity by the new launches in India that includes Yamaha SZ, Yamaha YZF R125 and Yamaha BWs (premium scooter).