Maruti boosts shopfloor diversity

Maruti Suzuki says its women workforce has crossed 1,300 after a hiring push on factory floors at its Gurugram and Manesar plants. (freepressjournal.in) The company said it stepped up recruitment over the past two years in vehicle assembly and engine-transmission roles, and hired more than 190 women for shopfloor jobs in the last year alone. Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer Hisashi Takeuchi said the company is focusing on “real integration” in core manufacturing work. (autocarpro.in) Maruti Suzuki said those women employees now work across manufacturing, research and development, sales and marketing, and corporate functions, with the latest gains concentrated at the two Haryana plants. (nationalheraldindia.com) The hiring update comes two weeks after Maruti Suzuki said it added a record 502 new service touchpoints in financial year 2025-26, lifting its after-sales network to 5,926 locations. The company said that network now spans 3,000 cities and towns in India. (marutisuzuki.com) Maruti Suzuki is India’s largest passenger-vehicle maker, and the company said financial year 2024-25 brought its highest-ever annual total sales and exports. It sold 2,234,266 vehicles that year, including 1,901,681 in India and 332,585 exports. (marutisuzuki.com) Industry group Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers said India’s passenger-vehicle sales hit a record 4.3 million units in financial year 2024-25, up 2% from a year earlier. Maruti Suzuki said domestic growth was “muted” in that period, even as it stayed the country’s top passenger-vehicle exporter for a fourth straight year. (siam.in) (marutisuzuki.com) The company’s latest annual report says it employs about 16,500 people and is expanding capacity with a new plant in Kharkhoda, Haryana, as it prepares more production for the domestic market. That gives the factory-floor hiring push extra weight inside a business that is still adding plants, lines and service outlets. (marutisuzuki.com) (marutistoragenew.blob.core.windows.net) For Maruti Suzuki, the immediate picture is two-sided: more women on assembly lines inside its older plants, and a larger service footprint outside them. Both moves add people and physical reach at a time when India’s biggest carmaker is still scaling up for its next phase of growth. (freepressjournal.in) (marutisuzuki.com)