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Mahindra and Mahindra Limited or shortly known as M&M, is a multinational automobile corporation based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It is considered as one of biggest car corporations in India and the largest tractor manufacturer in the entire world. The company is a division of a bigger company, the Mahindra group.
Mahindra actually ranked the 21st spot in the Fortune India 500 Top Companies in 2011. They come in competition with other big car companies in India including Tata Motors, Ashok Leyland, Maruti Suzuki, and a lot more.
M&M started to be a steel trading company in 1945 built by three brothers, K.C. Mahindra, J.C. Mahindra, and Malik Ghulan Mohammed. Its initial name then was Mahindra & Mohammed. Right after India’s Independence Day and Pakistan emerged to become a separate country, Mohammed fled to Pakistan. This led to the name change and became Mahindra & Mahindra in 1948.
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When the demand came for MUVs, M&M started to transform the business into a car company. The company then later moved on to making light commercial vehicles and agricultural tractors. As of today, M&M is considered as the key player in manufacturing utility vehicles with their first model, the Mahindra XUV500.
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The growth of the company did not stop there. Since the brothers wanted to venture on foreign markets and emerging industries, they bought Kinect Motors and started creating two-wheelers. They also have shared in the REVA Electric Car Company and later on bought the SsangYong Motor Company in 2011 from Korea.
Currently, M&M has its own assembly plants in India, United Kingdom and in Mainland China. They also have three factories in the United States. The global presence of M&M is also topnotch. Their growing value allowed them to purchase small companies and give birth to subsidiaries including Mahindra Europe S.r.I in Italy, Mahindra USA Inc., Mahindra China Tractor Co. Ltd., and the Mahindra South Africa.
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