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India Commercial Vehicle sector on a strong growth path
Low base likely to push growth further in coming months
The Commercial Vehicle (CV) sector, which is considered to be the barometer of an economy, recorded a surge of 19.9% in unit sales during FY18. The remarkable feature of this growth has been recovery post GST implementation (Image 1). Overall sales of CVs increased by 34% and 31% respectively in Q4CY17 and Q1CY18 after a decline of 9% in Q2CY17.
[Image 1: India CV quarterly unit sales and y-o-y change]
At the same time, the 12-month moving sum of CV sales witnessed sharp northwards movement post July-17 (Image 2). We assign this surge to fleet owners’ bulk buying post GST implementation. Moreover, this trend is expected to continue in coming months given improved macro-conditions at ground level, huge pent-up demand, the higher average age of the fleet and lower comparable (Q2CY17 was down 9% y-o-y).
[Image 2: India CV unit sales 12-month moving sum] Read the rest of this entry »
M&M races ahead of Maruti, Tata Motors with a surge in news sentiment to 5-yr high
Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M), one of the leading automobile companies in India, witnessed a surge in news sentiment to a 5-year high helped by extremely positive media coverage in March 2018. A slew of new product launches by M&M over the past 1-month lifted news sentiment to the highest level in the past 5-years.
With buoyant media coverage, M&M has surpassed news sentiment of both Maruti Suzuki and Tata Motors in March 2018 for the first time in the last 16-months.
[Image 1: Compare screen highlights news sentiment 100-DMA]
A series of positive news items highlighting new product launches, alternative energy and partnerships during the past 1-month pushed M&M’s news sentiment 100-day moving average (DMA) to 84.11 on Apr. 7, 2018. Read the rest of this entry »
Geneva Motor Show 2018: EVs steal the show; Volkswagen, Tata Motors lead product launch news coverage
Geneva Motor Show 2018 turned to be one of the most successful shows in recent years. Now that it has come to an end, we at Heckyl believe that success of the OEMs in showcasing new products/launches can be measured by the amount of media coverage they have received.
One clear message, visible from the attention given by Press and the OEMs, was that Electric Vehicles are arriving earlier than expected. See below our Buzzwords compilation for passenger vehicle industry from last one month’s new flow (Image 1).
[Image 1: Buzzwords for Auto Industry]
At OEMs level, auto behemoth Volkswagen is back in the news for all the good reasons. A surprise inclusion in the list was that of Tata Motors whose news coverage came close 4th, almost in line with Toyota Motor but ahead of i-series manufacture BMW. We believe that this jump in news for Tata Motors can be attributed to the launch of Jaguar’s all-electric I-PACE at Geneva.
This assumption is further strengthened by the fact that in Product launch category (yes, you can search and analyze news by categories in FiND, Heckyl’s News and Data Terminal!), Tata Motors jumped to the second position in last one month’s news coverage (Image 2).
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Is your company getting adequate attention from international media?
In today’s digital world, no company can afford to ignore their coverage on mainstream and social media. It is extremely important for companies to track media coverage and analyse sentiment around it regularly for preventing a PR crisis.
Heckyl has introduced Media Monitoring Tool, which offers unique insights through deep-dive analytics on the company’s news and social media coverage.
To demonstrate Heckyl’s capabilities and depth of news coverage, we conducted a study on international media coverage for the Nifty companies during the past 30-days.
Our analysis showed that Tata Motors, Infosys, and Bharti Airtel were the top 3 companies attracting maximum news coverage from international media houses.
In our view, keeping track of international media coverage and analysis of underlying tone of news stories is essential for the companies with global presence.
In this blog post, we highlight infographics which shows region-wise news coverage, the tone of global media coverage and top news publishers for these 3 companies.
Tata Motors tops media share of voice in the past 30-days
Tata Motors dominated media coverage among the leading auto makers in the past 30-days. At 56.4%, Tata Motors’ media share of voice was the highest when compared with its peers.
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