Honda Motorcycles & Scooters Reports Sale Of 54,820 Units In May 2020

Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India announced the total sales of 54,820 two-wheelers in the month of May. This includes 54,000 domestic dispatches and 820 two-wheeler exports. 

Honda also announced that its 2Wheeler retail sales in May’20 crossed the 1.15 lac unit-mark and over 10.5 lac two-wheelers were serviced at Honda workshops across India. Moreover, Honda BS-VI two-wheeler cumulative sales crossed a new high of 6 lac units during the month.

Elaborating on pick-up in business momentum, Yadvinder Singh Guleria, Director – Sales & Marketing, Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India Pvt. Ltd. said, “May’20 saw the wheels of business start turning slowly after the zero dispatch in the month of April’20. By now, a sizable 70% of Honda dealerships have resumed their operations. With sufficient availability of six BSVI products at our network (3 scooter & 3 motorcycle models), our network was able to kick off initial sales momentum crossing over 1.15 lac retails in May’20. In the new Coronial Era, Honda dealerships are increasingly promoting digital contactless customer engagement. An early encouraging sign based on our survey is that close to 80% of the intenders are looking forward to purchase their favourite Honda 2Wheeler within 3 months of the lockdown opening." 

May 2020 saw Honda’s entire ecosystem including dealers & suppliers rebooting their operations. Over 70% of Honda dealers have by now resumed Sales & Service operations. Parallelly, as 100% of Honda’s 308 supplier plants got approvals to restart operations, Honda also recommenced production at its Narsapura plant (Karnataka) from 25th May, with other 3 plants at Manesar (Haryana), Tapukara (Rajasthan) and Vithalapur (Gujarat) following from the 1st week of June in a staggered manner.