Mannai Automotives's team and EMTECH officials at the event.
A two-man team from Mannai Automotive's Heavy Equipment Group has beaten off competition from nine countries to scoop a prestigious dealership award.
Senior superintendent T K Sivasubramaniam and senior technician Sujith Kumara represented the Qatari company in an inter-dealership challenge, called EMTECH.
The event is an annual technical skill competition open to representatives from the VE Commercial Vehicles' (VECV) dealership network.
VECV is a joint venture between the Volvo Group and Eicher Motors, a commercial vehicle manufacturer in India whose origins date back to 1948.
Since July 2008, the joint venture has included a complete range of Eicher branded trucks and buses, VE Powertrain, Eicher’s components and engineering design services businesses, as well as the sales and distribution business of Eicher Busses and Trucks.
Altan Yuksel, a senior manager at Mannai Automotive-Heavy Equipment Group, said teams from India, south Asia and the Middle East took part in earlier rounds of the competition before five teams went head to head in the final in India on February 26-27.
In the final challenges, five technical stations had to be cleared within 30 minutes allotted to each station, with three different activities for each station.
The Mannai HEG Service team successfully cleared all the tasks, and the winners were announced at a grand award ceremony on February 27.
Sivasubramaniam and Kumara were presented with the award from VECV CEO Vinod Aggarwal, vice president (After Market) JP Verma, and Kaushik Bhattacharya, Head of Exports After Market.
Mannai Automotive's Heavy Equipment Group, VECV's distributor in Qatar, is part of the Mannai Group. Founded in 1951, as an auto spare parts distributor.
