Rural Focus Helps Keep Maruti Suzuki on Top in India

A growing portfolio and attention to India’s rural markets are helping Martuti Suzuki hold fast to its position as the country’s leading automaker.

Indian light-vehicle sales declined 1.9% to 2.99 million units in calendar 2014, according to WardsAuto data, but Maruti deliveries rose 8.3% to 1.15 million.In the automaker’s fiscal year ending March 31, sales totaled 1.17 million. More than one-third of those sales – 415,380 – came in rural …