Harley-Davidson to open dealership in Mumbai, Bangalore by Sept

After successful opening of two new Harley Davidson sales outlets in Hyderabad and Chandigarh in the country, US based cruiser motorcycles manufacturer is accelerating to expand its dealership network by launching another new dealers in Mumbai and Bangalore by the month of September, 2010. Harley Davidson is targeting to add three more dealerships in Chennai, Delhi and Chandigarh, there is no official confirmation regarding the opening of rest three outlets in India.

Anoop Prakash, MD, Harley Davidson India said,“ India is an important market for us. The total number of models that we are offering in India are 12...the interest for our products has been pretty uniform. Any plan of opening up other dealerships would be taken based on how the market grows...if it grows then even we would be setting up more dealerships."

The all new cruiser motorcycles come at an expansive price tag of between Rs 7 lakh to Rs 35 lakh. The company has already started working on future plans for India. “We are going to bring the HOG to India...globally it has a membership of 1.4 million Harley bikers,” Sanjay Tripathi, director (marketing), Harley-Davidson India, said. The HOG is an group of all Harley bike owners across the world and now India will also become a part of exclusive group of HOG.