FCA India Automobiles Private Limited Description

FCA India Automobiles Private Limited was established in the year 2012. They have their headquarters in Pune. The group is formerly known as Fiat Group Automobiles India Private Limited. The company is a fully owned subsidiary company of FCA Spa Italy. It was established to operate the National Sales Company for the selling of Fiat and Jeeps cars in the Indian market. It was also decided that they will not have any direct involvement in vehicle and powertrain production activities. The company manufactures and markets the automobiles and commercial vehicles in the country. Their brands include Palio Petrol, Palio Diesel, Petra and Uno. They are the ninth largest Indian car manufacturers in the country in terms of sale. The company has manufacturing facilities at Ranjangaon which is in Maharashtra that has an installed capacity to produce 135,000 cars and engines along with aggregates and components. They are planning to increase the production capacity for both car units and engines in the coming few years. The plant manufactures both Fiat and TATA cars. Their latest additions in the year 2014 includes Fiat Linea facelift, Fiat Punto Evo, TATA Zest and Fiat Avventura. Currently, the models that are being manufactured are Fiat Punto, Fiat Avventuram Abarth 595 Competizione and Jeet Compass. The company has sold over 23,551 vehicles in the year 2009 and has also noticed an increase of 241% as compared to their previous year’s sale which had 6,897 vehicles. The company was earlier represented the market through a joint venture company named Fiat India Automobiles Pvt Ltd. Presently, it operates as an independent entity and has produced FIAT and TATA brand cars for FCAIPL and TATA Motors respectively. They have presently employed more than 2600 employees. They also take contract manufacturing of engines for Maruti Suzuki India Ltd and Premier Automobiles. Premier Automobiles uses these engines for their compact SUV Premier RiO and the Suzuki cars. Apart from this, the company used to sell the 1100, 124 and Uno in the country which were manufactured under license by Premier Automobiles Limited.