Wheeled Construction Equipment Retail Sales Rise 22.07% To 7,434 Units In October: FADA

Wheeled construction equipment retail sales in India rose 22.07% YoY to 7,434 units in October 2026, according to FADA. Retails were up 14.62% from 6,486 units in September. October 2025 volumes stood at 6,090 units. FADA described the month as strong and infrastructure-led.

During the Navratri window, retails of 2,287 units were flat YoY (up 0.09%) but down 14.70% against Navratri 2024. FY2027 retails through October are up 4.93% at 42,184 units.

Growth Across Urban And Rural

Rural retail grew 22.16% YoY and urban 21.95%. Month on month, urban rose 21.45% and rural 9.89%. Rural markets accounted for 56.7% of retail, down from 59.1% in September, while urban’s share rose to 43.3%.

Diesel accounted for essentially the entire segment, with EVs at 0.1%.

JCB Leads, But Share Slips

JCB India retailed 3,942 units, up about 2% YoY, and held the top spot with a 53.03% share, down from 63.65% a year ago. Challengers grew faster. Action Construction Equipment retailed 740 units (up about 57%) for a 9.95% share, from 7.75%.

Escorts Kubota’s construction equipment business retailed 552 units (up about 67%) for a 7.43% share, from 5.42%.

Ajax Engineering retailed 372 units (5.00%). Bull Machines recorded 286 units, nearly three times its year-ago volume of 99 units, for a 3.85% share.

Tata Hitachi retailed 200 units (2.69%), Caterpillar India 155 units (2.09%), CASE New Holland 145 units (1.95%) and Doosan Bobcat 108 units (1.45%), which roughly doubled its volume. All Terrain Crane was down about 20% at 75 units.

FADA did not give a segment-specific outlook for construction equipment. Across categories, 51.65% of dealers expect growth in November, and CV dealers cited infrastructure and mining as drivers for the coming quarter.