MASL hosts Business Partners Meet


Spark Minda Aftermarket team sets an example by connecting with its Esteemed Business Partners on 4th & 5th March 2018 at SMIT – Pune, with a theme to shape up tomorrow’s business today and brainstorm about the fundamental topics in line with 5P’s (people, products, promotions, place & processes) the key objective was to stand up at one platform, analyse and set up a strategic roadmap for the forth coming years. The story line of the conference was based on “What got you here, won’t get you there” by Marshall Goldsmith.

On 4th March evening, a dinner was organized for the Business Partners with a brief welcome by Mr. Arvinth Siva – President, MASL with a brief introduction of key team members.

On 5th March, Business Partners along with MASL visited Spark Minda Technical facility. The Business Partners were welcomed with a flower bouquet. Mr. Arvinth Siva – President, MASL hosted the conference and gave an opening speech greeting everyone. Mr. Suresh D – CEO, SMIT & GCTO Spark Minda Group once again greeted all and presented a brief introduction about the facility, forward thinking of the management, robust product range getting developed with the state of the art EMI – EMC (Electromagnetic interference & Electromagnetic compatibility) testing facility. Further the conference was followed by a visit of the Business Partners to the SMIT facility organised by Mr. Yusuf Chikodi – Manager Product Research & Marketing, SMIT.

After the facility tour Mr. Arvinth Siva took over the conference by briefing everyone about emerging trends in our country, how the future business will look like and what developments will happen in MASL. Followed by this Business Partners were divided into 6 groups for a discussion on the questions based upon the questionnaires sent to them.

The conference turned out to be an interesting session of knowledge sharing. During the video call session with Mr. Ashok Minda – Group CEO, he addressed the Business Partners along with the MASL team and expressed his commitment towards the aftermarket business. After which the workshop started on 6 key identified strategies – People Development, Technical Competency, Service Excellence, Brand & Promotion, Products, Range and Distribution Strategy. During the workshop Business Partners actively shared their thoughts & gave inputs on the topics discussed. Followed by this, an open Q & A session was conducted for capturing inputs with regard to improvement in services relating to various areas of operation. There was also a visit organised for the Business Partners to Minda Corporation Limited plant which was highly appreciated by all the participants.

The session concluded with the closing speech of Mr. Arvinth Siva – President, MASL. Mr. Hanish Mandan – Associate Vice President, MASL proposed a vote of thanks to Business Partners for their active participation in the two day event and sparing their precious time for this business meet.

Heartiest Congratulations to MASL team for taking a major step towards strengthening partnership in the Aftermarket network.