Even if we combine the sales of Audi + BMW + Mercedes + JLR and other luxury cars in India in 2021, it would still stand at 25-26K for the year.
China's Audi alone sells ~55k cars in a MONTH!
Our sales numbers are not even close to what China is selling in a month!
As our income grows, sales would only shoot up and there's a huge opportunity there for luxury cars. And more the sales, more will be the manufacturing hubs in India and not just the assembly.
#DidYouKnow Mercedes has MBRDI setup in Bengaluru which is their main software development hub. Every single 20+ lakh Mercedes sold in the world in 2021 had most of its code written by Indian software engineers.
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#DidYouKnow 42% of the Hotels & Motels of the USA are owned by Patels!
The market cap of this 42% is ~$40 Bn (3 lakh Crores)
The history of Patel Motel goes back to the 1940s when the British were dwindling & the US was immigrant-friendly.
Kanji Manchhu Desai was the first Gujarati hotelier in the US. He moved from the West Indies by the way of Mexico to San Francisco in the early 1920s.
In the early 1940s, Kanji was living in a residential motel called Goldfield which was run by a Japanese-American.
When the President FDR's executive orders came and forced 100,000 Japanese-American into camps due to World War 2, Kanji decided to lease from the Japanese-American owner for a couple of 100 dollars.
Patel Brothers are the oldest & largest Indian grocery chain in the USA.
Founded in 1974, by 2 brothers - Mafat & Tulsi Patel, Patel Brothers is now valued at $140 Million (Rs 1090 Crores)
Mafat, Tulsi & Aruna Patel were born & raised in Mehsana, Gujarat. Mafat Travelled to the US in 1968 to pursue MBA from Indiana University and eventually settled in Chicago to work as an engineer.