Hinopak launches Dutro Junior

Hinopak delivered the first unit of its new LCV Truck, the Hino Dutro Junior to Ferozsons Laboratories Ltd. Hideya Iijima, Managing Director & CEO Hinopak Motors Limited, handed over the symbolic Hino key to Muhammad Anwar Khan, Director Procurement Ferozsons Laboratories in a ceremony held at the Hinopak Assembly Operations plant. Shahab Anwar, DGM Sales & Marketing Hinopak and Rehan Zafar Siddiqui, Area Manager Sales (South) Hinopak were also present at the ceremony.

Anwar Khan on the occasion expressed full confidence in the new Dutro Junior and said that a high performance, superior quality and reliable LCV truck like Dutro Junior is a breath of fresh air in the LCV market of Pakistan and we look forward to inducting more Dutro Junior units in our fleet to meet our expansion goals.

-MOBILE WORLD Magazine, November-2010, www.mobileworld.com.pk

Minister for Industries & Production Visits Hinopak

Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani, Federal Minister for Industries & Production visited Hinopak Motors Limited. The agenda of his visit was to discuss the automobile industry of Pakistan in general. During meeting Value Added Tax (VAT), Government policies & future plans for the betterment of industry and production sector, issues on import of used vehicles and other related issues were discussed.

Addressing on the occasion, the Federal Minister briefed that Government of Pakistan recognizes the role of automobile industry of Pakistan as a major growth driver and its contribution for economy of Pakistan and will support this industry to enable it to develop and play an important role globally. He told that today he observed the modern manufacturing facilities of Hinopak and was highly impressed to see the state of the art processes and in-house manufacturing processes. He congratulated Hinopak Management and workers for the continuous success by setting up milestones and benchmarks in Pakistan automotive industry, and hoped that Hinopak will continue its journey towards its prosperity and for betterment of Pakistan as a whole.

Kunwar Idris, Chairman, Hinopak thanked the federal Minister for his visit to Hinopak. He expressed his views that Hinopak strongly believes that this visit will provide new opportunities that will help to meet the challenges being faced by the local industries.

Hideya Iijima, Managing Director & CEO, Hinopak said that the industry had declined in sales due to unfavorable economic conditions till the end of last year. He added that it is heartening that due to aggressive government policies, sales of automobile started growing since January this year. He also informed that Hinopak has made huge investments and technology transfer for the industry development.

Muhammad Irfan Shaikh, Director Sales & Marketing, Hinopak said that Pakistan Automobile Industry is facilitating the common people of the country by providing jobs. He added that increase in duties & taxes directly impacting the pockets of common people and disturbing daily routine life. He also briefed the federal minister about export activities, and said that by successfully meeting international standards in export quality, Hinopak in collaboration with its principals is continuously striving to tap other prospective markets such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait, Egypt, Bahrain, UAE, Jordan as well as many inquiries are in pipeline from Panama, Mozambique, Cost Rica and Sub Sahara countries. He mentioned that Hinopak has invested huge amount of money to renovate its body operation plant by keeping in view the expected orders of export from different parts of the world.

-Staff Correspondent

Hinopak: Parts Service Conference 2009

Hinopak Parts & Service Dealers' Conference 2009 held at Hinopak recently. The main objective of the conference was to review the yearly performance of Hinopak's dealers.

The conference was attended by senior management of Hinopak, all authorized 1S, 2S, 3S Dealers and representatives of Area offices. A. Harigaya, Deputy General Manager, West-Aisa Group, Middle-East Euro of African Division, Hino Motors Ltd., Japan also attended the event.

Hideya Iijima, MD & CEO Hinopak inaugurated the conference and assured the dealers for full support of Hinopak and requested all dealers for their suggestions and regular feedback.

Takeshi Ito, DMD, Hinopak said in his address that our dealers are the backbone of our company. He assured all the dealers of Hinopak's fullest support to achieve customers' satisfaction.

S. Arshad Ali, General Manager Product Support briefly highlighted the objective of the conference. He also explained various after sales activities to dealers and requested them to recognized out-standing services by front line staff.

Muhammad Irfan Shaikh, Director Sales & Marketing, Hinopak Motors said we owe the success and achievement of our aim of "Total Customer Satisfaction" to all members of the Hino family he also added that hard work and commitment with their job will make dealers' facility more profitable and build a good reputation among transporters and makes the Hino Brand No. 1 all over Pakistan.

Presentations were made by PSD on various topics in which they highlighted "How to promote the dealership activities and make the Hino Customer Satisfied". The dealership performance awards for year 2009 distributed to top 3 position holders of Service and parts activities.