TVS Motor Company Limited – Company Profile

TVS Motor Company, the flagship company of the TVS Group, is India’s third largest
two-wheeler manufacturer and one among the top ten in the world.

The TVS Group was established back in 1911, when the founder of the company,
Shri T V Sundaram Iyengar created an enduring business, led by a family of like-minded
workers and managers united by a set of high, yet shared principles. Driven by this
inspiration, the TVS group has today emerged as India's leading player in the automobile
and automotive components industries. The group has 30 companies employing a work
force of around 40,000 people. TVS Motor Company is the largest among the group
companies in terms of size and turnover.

Today, TVS Motor Company has,

o 4 manufacturing plants (Hosur in Tamilnadu, Mysore in Karnataka, Nalagarh
in Himachal Pradesh – India and Karawang - Indonesia)
o 16% market share in the two-wheeler industry in India
o Product offerings in all segments of the two-wheeler industry in India
o Product offerings for the three-wheeler industry in India
o More than 15 million customers
o Products exported to more than 50 countries worldwide

Leading from the front, the Chairman of TVS Motor Company, Mr.Venu Srinivasan, has won
many laurels for the company. The most recent awards conferred on him, while being head
of the Confederation of Indian Industries include the Honoris Causa Doctor of Science
(D. Sc.) for his outstanding contributions in the field of Quality Movement and Manufacturing
Excellence, the distinguished civilian honour ‘Order of Diplomatic Service Merit’ (Heung-In
Medal) conferred by the President of the Republic of Korea, His Excellency Lee Myung-bak
in recognition of his valuable contribution in promoting Korea-India bilateral relations and the
prestigious honour by the President of Indian with the Padma Shri award for his valuable and
outstanding contributions in the field of Trade and Industry. The JRD Tata Corporate, The
Star of Asia award by Business Week, The Jamshedji TATA Lifetime Quality Achievement
Award, Emerging Corporate Giant - Times & Harvard Business School Association are some
of the other high-profile awards bestowed on him.
Resilience, can-do attitude, indomitable spirit to continuously better industry norms, doing
business with a human touch and putting customers at the forefront are some of the salient
features that best define Team TVS.

Driven by technology and innovation at the helm, TVS Motor Company boasts of a rich talent
pool, manufacturing facilities that conform to world class standards and constantly
emphasizes a strong commitment to ensure best practices. The Company has been a
competitive player, constantly challenging industry standards and creating revolutionary
innovations. Take for example the many firsts that the Company has been credited with,
such as the deployment of a catalytic converter in a 100 cc motorcycle or even the first four
stroke 150cc motorcycle; both premiered from TVS Motor Company. Also, there is the
Apache, which in 2006 became the first Indian motorcycle to win six prestigious awards in a
row and that too, immediately on being launched.

The company’s penchant for quality resulted in it becoming the first two-wheeler
manufacturer to win the coveted Deming Award in 2002. The year 2007 also proved to be a
special one for the Company as in that year; it became the first Indian automobile
manufacturer to roll out as many as seven new products on a single day, a testimony to
manufacturing prowess. TVS Motor Company is committed to achieve total customer
satisfaction through excellence in quality, its management philosophy being based on five
pillars of TQM (Total Quality Management). Quality awareness therefore percolates through
the entire organisation from new product development to after sales services.

The current product portfolio of the company comprise of motorcycles including TVS StaR in
the economy segment, TVS Flame in the executive segment and TVS Apache RTR in
performance segment. TVS Scooty Pep+, TVS Scooty Teenz, TVS Scooty Teenz Electric
and TVS Scooty Streak make up the scooterette segment while XL Super and Heavy Duty
form the mopeds segment. The company recently launched India’s first clutchless
motorcycle, TVS Jive along with an automatic metal bodied scooter TVS WEGO therefore
offering consumers a comprehensive product portfolio.

TVS Motor Company is renowned for its human resource management. The principle of
Total Employee Involvement (TEI) that the company employs, gives equal opportunity to
each employee to create a promising career path. Employees get exposure to various skill
developmental aspects like Cross Functional Teams (CFT), Supervisory Improvement
Teams (SIT), Quality Control Circles (QCC) among various others. Specific care is taken to
ensure the creation and maintenance of an incomparable working environment with
employee welfare at the focal point.

TVS Motor Company believes in going beyond the product and reaching out to people. It
values customers and their expectations. In fact, it is this attribute that has inspired the
company to innovate with concepts like 99 colours for TVS Scooty Pep+, balancing wheels
for first-time scooter riders and among many others, racing technology in the Apache RTR
for performance lovers. This has resulted in the company enjoying a base of more than 15
million satisfied customers.

Constant innovation has led to regular setting of new benchmarks to meet fresh challenges
and customer requirements. While adopting new technologies and processes, there is the
ever present rationale to continually remain a ‘green’ company, sensitive to the ever
changing needs of the environment.

As part of its global operations, TVS Motor Company has set up a manufacturing facility in
Indonesia, which caters specifically to the Indonesian and ASEAN Markets. PT TVS Motor
Company Indonesia, wholly owned subsidiary of TVS Motor Company, manufactures TVS
Neo, the new generation of bebeks for those markets.

TVS Motor Company has international presence in more than 50 countries in Asian, African
and Latin American Continents and will enter more international markets in due course. In
India, the company functions through a strong network of sales, service, authorised service
centers and other certified service points.

TVS Motor Company Limited Phone : 91 4344 276780 – 84 (5 lines)

Post Box No 4, Fax : 91 4344 276878 / 277423
Harita, Hosur – 635109 Website : www.tvsmotor.in
Tamilnadu, INDIA

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