Tata Motors' Acquisition of Daewoo Commercial Vehicles

            
 
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Case Code : BSTR158
Case Length : 16 Pages
Period : 2003 - 2005
Organization : Tata Motors
Pub Date : 2005
Teaching Note : Available
Countries : India
Industry : Heavy Commercial Vehicles

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The Acquisition

In July 2003, Praveen Kadle (Kadle), Executive Director, finance and corporate affairs at Tata Motors, called Ravi Kant (Kant), Executive Director, commercial vehicles business unit, for a meeting. The agenda was to know if Kant was interested in taking up the bid for DWCV...

Synergies

Most analysts felt that the DWCV acquisition was a perfect fit. According to Satish Ramanathan, an analyst at ICICI Securities, "The fit is very good and will incrementally add around four to five percent to turnover and the same amount to profit."The acquisition would enable Tata Motors to increase both its domestic and export earnings.

Tata Motors' technology was focused on the lower end of heavy trucks of up to 210 hp. The DWCV trucks ranged between 210 to 450 hp. This product range could help Tata Motors to check competition from Volvo's Indian unit. In the words of Morgan Stanley analyst, Satish Jain, DWCV would serve as Tata Motors' platform in Southeast Asia, and would also help expand its product range in its existing markets - including India...

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Integration Issues

Kant was nominated as chairman of TDCVC. Kwang-Ok Chae (Chae) was retained as the CEO and president, while Kadle was appointed on the board of the company. DWCV products would continue to sell under the DWCV brand name till a decision was taken about the new branding of the products...

Outlook

According to Graeme Maxton (Maxton), managing director (Asia Pacific) of a leading auto industry portal, autopolis.com, the biggest market share gainers in the next eight years would mostly be small automobile firms like First Automotive Works (FAW) and Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC) in China, Auto Vaz in Russia, and Tata Motors in India.

According to him, Tata Motors was poised to gain because of its low-cost quality manufacturing at close to European standards."His view is contrary to the conventional wisdom that industry consolidation will see fewer and bigger auto companies emerging over the next decade or so...

Exhibits

Exhibit I: Tata Motors Profile
Exhibit II: Tata Motors Timeline
Exhibit III: Brief History of Daewoo Commercial Vehicles
Exhibit IV: Share Price Trend for Tata Motors
Exhibit V: Tata Motors' Globalisation Strategies


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