Zee Media Bureau
New Delhi: India's largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki on Monday reported its January sales which rose 13.9 percent to 1.16 lakh units compared to 1.02 lakh units sold in the year-ago period, aided by domestic as well as exports growth.
Domestic sales grew 8.7 percent year-on-year to 1.05 lakh units from 96,569 units while exports jumped 89 percent to 11,047 units from 5,847 units in the month ended January. Passenger vehicles sales climbed 7.9 percent to 89,014 units in January from 82,461 units in same month last year.
Recently, Maruti also declared its Q3 results. Net profit grew 18 percent to Rs 802 crore in the quarter ended 31 December from Rs 681 crore in the year earlier.
It sold a total of 323,911 vehicles in Q3, a growth of 12.4 percent. Of this, exports were at 28,709 units, a growth of 43.8 percent.
