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General Motors (GM) India, which is shutting down its Halol (Gujarat) plant by the middle of next year, said it will soon move 170 employees to the Talegaon (Maharashtra) facility.
“We are moving some of the people to the Talegaon plant – a batch of 170 people who were willing to move – soon,” Arvind Saxena, President and Managing Director, GM India told BusinessLine on the sidelines of the launch of its Trailblazer sports utility vehicle (SUV).
The company on Wednesday launched Trailblazer, priced at ₹26.40 lakh (ex-showroom, New Delhi).
It has around 1,100 employees at the Halol plant. After the company announced the factory’s closure in July, the employees were given the option to either move to the Talegaon plant or seek jobs in other companies setting up new plants in the State.
As part of its India business growth commitment, GM India has already started exporting to Mexico – shipping around 5,000 units of Chevrolet Beat – every month. The company has a target to export 20,000 units this year and 50,000 next year, Saxena said.
However, for the domestic market, the company’s sales have fallen to around 2,000 units per month.
To correct this situation, the company is working on customer relationship building and talk about product safety, he said.
The Trailblazer is equipped with a 200PS engine (2.8-litre diesel) that produces 500Nm of torque and has ground clearance of 253 mm.
The company will be importing the vehicle from GM’s Thailand facility.
The Trailblazer will also be available through Amazon between Wednesday and Sunday at a reservation deposit of ₹25,000.
The customers will receive the vehicles from their local Chevrolet dealership.
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