IMC inducts 500 new employees

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KARACHI: Indus Motor Company (IMC) inducted around 500 new employees during the last eight months owing to rising sales of cars.

The company mainly benefited from strong demand generated by the new 11th generation Toyota Corolla launched in July 2014, and produced 51,398 units. It is currently rolling out 225 Corolla per day as compared to 210 in April this year.

IMC Chief Operating Officer (COO) Ali Asghar Jamali said that increase in production capacity has also reduced the delivery timing of Corolla to 2-2.5 months from 3.5-4 months.

Toyota Corolla Grande is being delivered in three to four weeks followed by 1,300-1,600cc in eight to 10 weeks, he said. On investment plans, he said the company would invest mainly in plant maintenance, improving efficiency and energy saving options, but the amount would not be very significant.

About car prices, Jamali said the company has not jacked up prices for the last 1.5 years despite huge demand. The government, he said, must realise that the import policy is damaging local industry and hampering new investments.

Published in Dawn, September 24th , 2015

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Anwar Amjad

Sep 24, 2015 09:42am

Import of foreign cars should be totally banned for ten years at least to promote the local automotive industry.

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Burjor

Sep 24, 2015 07:56pm

Pakistan has to develop its own vehicles from scratch. If it starts now it will be able to produce products in about ten years time. All vehicle producing countries started from zero, thru continuous progress, research, hard work, application, they have reached a certain stage, i.e. a beginning has to be made. Start small, but do everything, designing, engineering, research, everything involved in Pakistan.

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Ray Ray

Sep 25, 2015 03:29pm

Even three years old Japanese used cars have better quality and drive experience than zero meter Pakistan assembled ones. This is just reality.

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Atif

Sep 26, 2015 01:03pm

@anwar amjad Such a step should only be taken if local manufacturers provide products in line with international market with necessary safety features. Paksuzuki (which has over 60% share) is selling cars from early 1980s in the country which are discontinued all over the world. Obsolete Junk being sold be local industry without any safety standards. Tell me are PAKISTANI LIVES SO CHEAP ??? with the current behavior of Japanese assembler mafia in Pakistan is it unjustified to restrict imports. Do you want to destroy the only choice that Pakistani consumers have. if that happens all pakistanis will be offered junk obsolete cars like Mehran for the next 50 years. Restrictions on imports make sense only if local assemblers offer quality vehicles - not globally obsolete ones without safety features.

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