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Tyre firms stare at weak FY21 as replacement market sales remain wobbly

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Tyre firms’ prospects for fiscal year 2021 (FY21) were already deflated as auto production hit a multi-year low due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Hopes that the replacement market demand could lift sales is also slowly waning. Analysts believe that tyre firms face a double-digit decline in sales in FY21.

For one, replacement tyre sales continue to be tepid even after lockdown restrictions have been eased and dealers have reopened.

A pan-India dealer-check conducted by Reliance Securities Ltd stated that while April sales volume was barely 10% (of normal) for dealers, sales inched up to about 25% of normal level in the last fortnight of May.

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