Tata Motors global sales up 11% in March

Tata Motors Monday reported an increase of 11 percent in its global wholesales, including that of Jaguar Land Rover, in March this year at 118,750 units, as compared to March 2015. The cumulative sales of Tata for this fiscal were at 10, 66,254 units, up by 8 percent.

The sale in March 2016 of Tata Motors' commercial vehicles and its Tata Daewoo range stood at 45,235 units, registering a growth of 18 percent against the corresponding month last year. While the sale of the global passenger vehicles last month was at 73,515 units, higher by 8 percent as compared to March 2015, the cumulative passenger vehicles sales for this fiscal stood at 674,625 units.

In March, Jaguar sales were at 13,370 units while Land Rover sales for the month stood at 51,209 units. The sales of Jaguar Land Rover were at 64,579 units in March. The cumulative sales of Jaguar were at 102,106 units, while the figure for Land Rover was 441,979 units.

In India, Tata Motors reported 1 percent growth in sales to 53,057 units in March. The company had sold 52,479 vehicles in the same month last year. The domestic sales of Tata Motors' commercial and passenger vehicles declined by 1 percent to 46,701 units as against 47,044 units sold in March 2015. The sale of passenger vehicles in the domestic market witnessed a decline of 44 percent to 8,454 units in March 2016, from 15,039 units sold in the same period last year. The export of Tata Motors in March saw an increase of 17 percent from 5,435 units in March last year to 6,356 units in March 2016.

[1 lakh = 100,000 | 1 crore = 10 million | 100 crore = 1 billion]