TVS Motor Company Chennai

The TVS Group was established in 1911, when its founder, T V Sundaram Iyengar created an enduring business, led by a family of like-minded workers and managers who were united by a set of high, yet shared principles. Driven by this inspiration, the group has grown to 30 companies, employing a workforce of around 30000. TVS Motor Company is the largest in the group, both in terms of size and turnover, with four state-of-the-art manufacturing plants in Hosur (Tamil Nadu), Mysore (Karnataka), Nalagarh (Himachal Pradesh) and Karawang (Indonesia).

Leading from the front, Venu Srinivasan, Chairman of TVS Motor Company, has won many laurels for the company including The JRD Tata Corporate Award, The Star of Asia Award by Business Week, The Jamshedji Tata Lifetime Quality Achievement Award and the Emerging Corporate Giant Award by Times and Harvard Business School Association. The company has many firsts to its credit.

It was the first Indian company to deploy a catalytic converter in a 100 cc motorcycle and the first to bring out an indigenous four stroke, 100 cc motorcycle, TVS Victor. The company became the first Indian two wheeler manufacturer to win the coveted Deming Award in 2002 for its commitment to quality and went on to become the first Indian two wheeler manufacturer to win six prominent awards in a row for its premium segment motorcycle TVS Apache in 2006. In 2007, it became the first Indian automobile manufacturer to roll out seven new products on a single day, a testimony to its manufacturing prowess.

The company’s strong passion for quality and innovation is evident in the fact that, over the years, several prominent awards have been conferred on it, including the prestigious Deming Award, making it the only two wheeler manufacturer in India to have won this award.  

 The TVS Plant at Hosur

The company’s current product portfolio comprises of motorcycles, scooterettes, mopeds and autorickshaws. Motorcycles include TVS Star in the economy segment, TVS Flame in the executive segment and TVS Apache RTR in the performance segment. TVS Scooty Pep+, TVS Scooty Teenz, TVS Scooty Teenz Electric and TVS Scooty Streak constitute the scooterette segment while XL Super and Heavy Duty form the mopeds segment. The company has also entered the three wheeler market in India with TVS King, India’s first two stroke 200 cc autorickshaw, equipped with an electric start and elegant styling. The TVS King is available in Petrol, LPG and CNG versions.

One of the key strengths of the company is its strong and continuously growing network of authorised dealerships, service centres and other certified service points. Innovation, a second nature to TVS, is obvious in concepts like the astonishing 99 colours, the unique ‘balancing wheels’ for first time riders and the introduction of racing technology’s touch and feel in the Apache RTR. The constant underlying rationale, while innovating and adopting new technologies is to remain a ‘green’ company, sensitive to the ever changing needs of the environment.

TVS Motor’s commitment to achieve total customer satisfaction through excellence in quality is apparent in its management philosophy, which is based on the five pillars of Total Quality Management. Quality awareness percolates through the entire organisation from new product development to after sales services. Employee welfare is the focal point of the working environment. The company actively employs the principle of Total Employee Involvement, ensuring that each employee is given an equal opportunity to create a promising career path. Employees get exposure to various skill developmental aspects like Cross Functional Teams, Supervisory Improvement Teams and Quality Control Circles.

As part of its global operations, TVS Motor Company has set up PT TVSMotor Company Indonesia. This wholly owned subsidiary of TVS Motor Company, manufactures TVS Neo, the new generation of bebeks (step-throughs), which caters specifically to the Indonesian and ASEAN Markets. TVS Motor Company has an international presence in over 50 countries in the Asian, African and Latin American continents and plans to further expand its footprint.