Thank you, Mr. President! May I have another?
Posted on 07/15/2017 2:56:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
HOUSTON, TEXAS: Anand Mahindra-led Mahindra group will double the number of American employees at its North American farm equipment business, the move coming at a time when President Donald Trump has asked companies to increasingly hire locals to manage business in the US.
Mahindra USA (MUSA), that manages the group's tractor and farm utility vehicles (UTVs) business, is also considering setting up a factory in America in line with the expansion of business, which has grown nearly five-fold over the last few years.
MUSA recorded revenues of $600 million last year as it sold 32,000 units, with tractors accounting for majority 25,000 units, while the rest being farm and recreational utility vehicles (UTVs), Mani Iyer, president of the company said here. “We have a very profitable business here, and it makes sense down the line to put up a factory,“ Iyer said, speaking about the company's growing presence in the North American region, including Canada.
The company -which sources tractor and other equipment from India, Japan and Korea -currently has five distribution and assembly centres in the US, and one in Canada. These centres are used to service the business in the region.
Mahindra employs 250 people directly. Total manpower involved is around 2,000 people, considering indirect linkages at dealerships and other partners. “We are an American company , with our headquarters in India. As many as 99% of our people are Americans and we are seen as a local brand.“
Iyer said most of the new recruits will be native Americans. “You have to be a local company , with a localised brand, and local folks, and localised products.“ MUSA is the third-largest tractor seller in the US behind John Deere and Kubota Tractors and sells tractors running up to 120 horse power through a 550-strong dealer network. Around 30-40% of the raw materials are sourced locally, and Iyer said this will go up gradually.
(The writer is in US at the invitation of Mahindra)
Yep, Thank You Mr President!
Sell it here? Build it here.
Build it Here? Hire US Citizens.
Costs a bit more? That’s OK, you now have a job that pays enough to buy it.
Henry Ford knew this 100 years ago.
#MAGA
#Build the Wall
Thank you, Mr. President! May I have another?
We have an IH B414 ca 1962. We have the gas powered version, but it also came as a diesel. It’s a little larger than a Ford N series with a few more features, but still a small-plot tractor. It was built in the UK by IH’s division there and imported into the U.S. It was also basically the IH 3414 industrial tractor.
When IH discontinued it, they sold the plans and tooling to the company that became Mahindra. Mahindra churned out the same basic tractor (diesel only, IIRC) with a few cosmetics for several decades. If you order parts for the B414 from CaseIH, they come in Mahindra-branded boxes.
I don’t know how much of the current Mahindra lines still use that original tooling, but our old B414 has been pretty bulletproof, although we don’t work it nearly as hard as it’s capable of being worked.
If I ever replace the B414, Mahindra’s the first dealer I’ll be stopping at.
Misleading headline, but still great news.
Isn’t Mahindra tractors advertising on Rush Limbaugh? (Or was?)
Thank you President Trump and Rush do ads for them...
They are doing good because a certain green colored tractor company has priced themselves out of the market. Especially in parts they are crazy. I lost an oil check cap off my JD mower. They wanted $14 for an oil plug??? I bought the same plug for 85 cents elsewhere.
Could this be due to the overpaid labor unions that are destroying their own market?
$14 for a oil plug? No sale...
I’ve been debating getting a rear scoop. It works well?
I have a blade. My neighbor says a box blade will move a good amount of dirt if sufficiently weighted.
They made a loader bucket for the 414, but finding one and the associated framework isn’t easy - when I do find one, it’s either in Canada or halfway across the country.
Here in WV, I could really use 4wd so I would like to trade her in on something with that, even if a bit smaller. Mostly I use it to bush hog the fields and it’s a bit overkill for that.
What I could really use is some sort of attachment for scooping out ditches along our road/driveway. I have some ideas but don’t have time to pursue them right now and we may move elsewhere where I don’t need it. A small backhoe would work, but would take forever. I don’t need to dig the ditches, just scrape a few inches of debris that accumulates.
Mahindra is ok for the urban farmer and light landscaping but it can not hold a candle to John Deere or Case when it comes to heavy duty work. Even New Holland out performs them. And talk about high parts replacement, don’t even think about owning a JCB.
What I could really use is some sort of attachment for scooping out ditches along our road/driveway.
Wont a plain old trailing blade work for that? On my tractors I can scoop pretty well with those, as long as I can put my ditch side wheel in the ditch, with the blade at an angle so it pulls the dirt up into the road. The outer edge of the blade lines up with the outside of the tire. You may have to make some other passes to crown the road right.
If you have to go further out than your tire track that could be harder.
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