| Auto
portals hit by acquisition fever
Walletwatch.com, February 9, 2000
(KMFL) has picked up a 30 % stake in indiacar.com, also an auto
web portal, set up by Ashwin Sanghi, Director& Ceo of vitesse,
another big Mumbai car dealership.
Auto
Portal Action
Newsnmuse.com, January 04, 2000
Kotak Mahindra Finance has taken a 30 per cent stake in indiacar.com,
another car portal. Ashwin Sanghi, CEO of Vitesse, another prominent
Mumbai car dealer is the chief promoter of indiacar.com. Edelweiss
Capital has taken a 3 per cent stake in indiacar.com
Women
on Wheels
Express India Out & About, October 23, 1998
Vitesse is all set to kick-off the city's first all-women car rally,
`She Wends Her Way on a Maruti', on Sunday, Oct 25. Over 100 women
will participate in the rally which will be flagged off from the
Nehru Centre by Vitesse's CEO, Ashwin Sanghi.
I
Am A Wiz.com,
Ashwin Sanghi, recognising the immense business potential of the
Internet, has jumped onto the net bandwagon and tasted success in
this highly-competitive segment. The 32-year-old chief executive
officer of Indiacar.com, India's leading automobile vortal, has
sold more than 500 new cars and around 100 second-hand cars with
warranties online. Mr. Sanghi is also the chief of Vitesee Limited.
Of
late, there has been lot of activity in the auto portals
sector with two leading portals offloading a part of the stake to
investors. Automart sold 20 per cent of its stake to Sah & Sanghi,
a leading Mumbai-based vehicle dealership. In another development,
Kotak Mahindra Finance picked up a 30 per cent stake in indiacar.com.
also web portal set up by Ashwin Sanghi. CEO of Vitesse, a leading
Maruti car dealer Both deals are reported to be independent of each
other. However, the pricing of the deals is not known.
India
on a Luxury Drive,
Says Ashwin Sanghi of Sanghi Motors, the dealers for Mercedes Benz,
"In the past two years, a large number of people have been
first-time buyers. Earlier, if you looked at Mumbai, 90% would be
the same category.
What
I Told Them: MK Sanghi
Financial Express
India:
Commies vs. Capitalists
Newsweek, Nov 22
"Today, every government department is very conscious that
political survival depends on economic progress," says M. K.
Sanghi, president of the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry
of India.
DaimlerChrysler's
Mercedes Benz E270 CDI available at Sanghi Motorcar Co. in Mumbai
Indiainfoline.com
Says Mr.Vaibhav Sanghi, Director, Sanghi Motorcar Co., " The
launch of the E270 CDI in India heralds the arrival of the world's
favourite Mercedes Benz variant, namely, the E Class, with the all
powerful 270 diesel engine. Sanghi Motorcar co. is proud to be able
to offer this product to its customers and we have geared ourselves
up for service and spare part support. We expect this product to
contribute substantially to our sales portfolio in the current financial
year."
Sanghi
Motorcar receives the Best performers award by Mercedes-Benz
Mr. Vaibhav Sanghi, Director, Sanghi Motorcar Co. stated “The
Company has recorded a 25% growth in sales in 2004 and during the
year also became operational in Nagpur for sales and service. This
would help the company capture business from the upcountry market.
We are also confident of better results in 2005 given the overall
positive growth of the Indian economy.”
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