Ashish Joshi leaves, Steve Sargent and Paul Stroud to spearhead Triumph

Triumph is a Britain based company which believes in manufacturing iconic motorcycles. This iconic company has entered into Indian market couple of months back. Triumph appointed Ashish Joshi as Managing Director for Triumph Motorcycle India. Recently Triumph Motorcycle had announced that Ashish Joshi will no longer be carrying out Triumph Motorcycle’s India operations as Mr. Joshi has parted from the company on mutual consent. Before joining Triumph Mr. Joshi was heading the operations of Royal Enfield in Europe and has successfully established Royal Enfield’s business in Europe. Joshi has about 16 years experience in dealing with Asian and European markets.

The company has announced the new spearheads of Indian Triumph operations. The company has handed over the responsibility to Paul Stroud  who will take charge as director for sales and marketing, and Steve Sargent is appointed as director of emerging markets and overall product strategy. These two spear heads will be spear heading the Triumph operations in India, they will ensure that the plans that were devised by the company go accordingly. Triumph bike was sighted at 2012 Auto Expo held in New Delhi earlier this year.

This company is planning to introduce their heavy duty bikes in Indian market by end of this year. Triumph is planning to start the marketing of their bike by October 2012. According to some news inputs, Triumph has already got 3 dealers in place, and they are planning to extend this number further to 12 to 15 dealers in coming 3 to 4 years. Triumph Motorcycles will be sold a Completely Built Units [CBU] in India. Triumph is planning to introduce 1050 cc 3-cylinder tiger and sprint models in the initial stage. In the next phase, they plan to launch the timeless twin cylinder 865 cc Bonneville and the massive 2294 cc Rocket III, 675 cc Daytona sports bike and Speed Triple Street models at the later stages.