Mumbai/New Delhi: Automakers in India are reducing investments in loss-making overseas arms to conserve cash and cut costs as the pandemic limits their ability to raise fresh funding.
Instead, leading companies such as Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd (M&M), Tata Motors Ltd, Minda Corp. Ltd and Lumax Auto Technologies Ltd are focusing on the domestic market.For instance, M&M, which was in talks with the South Korean government for a bailout of SsangYong Motors, said on 12 June that it will not make further investments in the subsidiary.
M&M has also decided to shut down its US-based electric scooter unit, GenZe, to control mounting losses. The two units accounted for about 80% of M&M’s overall losses from international operations.
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