April 10, 2013: Tata Motors and its Myanmar partner, Apex Greatest Industrial Co. Ltd. (AGI), has launched its first fully integrated 3-S commercial vehicle dealership in Yangon. It will sales, service and spares facilities for its full range of CVs. The vehicles launched and displayed at the inauguration include the Ace, Magic and Super Ace along with five different fully-built applications in the SCV Range, Tata LPT 407, Tata LPT 613, Tata LPT 1116, Tata LPK 1615, Tata LPT 1618, Tata LPT 2116, Tata LPT 2123 & Tata LPK 2523 in the Truck range and the Tata LP 407, Tata LP 613, Tata LP 913 & Tata LPO 1924 RE SLF in the Bus range.
The new 3S facility was inaugurated by U Win Myint, minister of commerce, Myanmar, R T Wasan, head – International Business, Commercial Vehicles Business Unit, Tata Motors, U Kyi Thein, Chairman – Apex Greatest Industrial Co. Ltd., U Tint Lwin, Founder, Lwin & Swan Group and major shareholder of AGI and Rudrarup Maitra, Tata Motors’ regional head for South Asia & Far East, CVBU.
Wasan said, “We already have over 400 Tata vehicles running on the roads of Myanmar and it is an important market for Tata Motors in ASEAN. We plan to launch two more dealerships in Yangon and will continue to introduce our world-class facility in some of the major cities of Myanmar, in future.”
The new dealership is spread over 9,000 square metres and has a 10-bay workshop .Tata Motors had signed a turnkey contract with Myanmar Automobile & Diesel Industries Limited (MADI), an enterprise under the Government’s ministry of industry, for setting up a heavy truck assembly plant, at Magwe, in central Myanmar, funded by a $ 20 million line of credit from the Indian government. The plant has a capacity of producing 1,000 vehicles per annum initially which can be augmented to 5,000 per year.