The engines on their new products have rusting issues which was never the case when it was hero honda. The reason may be attributed to moving away from honda approved vendors to ones that are lower in cost. The quality of their entry-level products has certainly gone down. A lot of components have got major redesign which might have affected reliability. The splendor with 97.2 cc engine which was a symbol of great reliability has been riddled with issues in BS-6 avatar. The BS-6 transition for them was not a great one. The company has been facing lots of reliability issues which was never the case before. The same is the case for xtreme 200R & Xpulse. The engine powering it is a modified version of unicorn engine. Xtreme 16 R which was promising when launched has sorely been not updated mechanically. Their recent launches barring xpulse to a certain extent have been nothing but duds.
With Honda breathing down its neck, the top management of hero is not even acting to stem the loss of market share to its erstwhile partner. They have never been in this situation before. The volumes for Passion, Glamour & HF Deluxe have halved. Currently, splendor contributes nearly 70% of its total volumes. Hero Moto corp has literally become one product company. The trends were concerning and called for strategic intervention by top management. I was just going through the sales numbers of Hero Motocorp for the past few months. The recent one being Mallo le masson Head product planning, strategy & M&A. Their top management has been shaky of late which denotes there is no stability in operations or no clarity in the vision of the company. I'm writing this article in context to the series of recent resignations by senior management personnel of the company over the past 2-3 years.
0 kommentar(er)
