Global Gearing > Alliances

Over the years, Hero Group has strengthened its joint ventures, forged profitable relationships with its partners and allied itself with some of the best players in the market. Technology assimilation through wide sourcing has been and will continue to be an integral part of the progression of the Hero Group.

Technology Related Partnerships/ Alliances and Joint Ventures

• Hero entered a joint venture for technical and financial participation with one of the world's largest automotive makers, Honda Motor Company Limited of Japan, in 1984 for the manufacture of 100cc motorcycles in India.

• Hero's quest for a low-budget, fuel-efficient and environment-friendly two-wheeler led Hero Motors to enter into a Technical Collaboration with Steyr Daimler Puch of Austria in 1987 for the manufacture of the 65cc, Porsche-design mini-motorcycles.

• Munjal Showa Limited was formed in Technical and Financial Collaboration with Showa Corporation, Japan, to design, develop and manufacture of front forks, shock absorbers, struts and gas struts.

• Sunbeam Auto Limited has set-up a state of the art piston manufacturing facility in technical collaboration with M/S Honda Foundry Company Limited of Japan, the pioneers in the world for manufacturing high-strength lightweight pistons used in light, powerful fuel-efficient engines.

• Munjal Auto Industries Limited has a joint venture with the State-owned Gujarat Industrial Investment Corporation, to cater to the needs of the overseas market.

• Hero Cycles CR Division was set up in consultation with MECON, Asia's largest engineering consultants and in Technical Collaboration with Wean United, USA.

• Hero Cycles Cold Rolling Division has also entered into a technical collaboration with Kawasaki Steel Corporation, Japan for the improvement of production yield, elimination of defects, reduction of customer returns and enhancement of maintenance operations against certain predetermined targets.

IT Related Alliances

Munjal-eSystems, the Enterprise-oriented and Software Solutions division of Hero Corporate Service Limited is a microsoft gold certified partner. It is ISO 9001:2000 certified and is today, a dedicated and the most preferred solution center for microsoft business solution.

Navision in the manufacturing sector. It has to its credit many sucessfully completed projects in various industries like automobiles, switchgears, pharmaceuticals, trading, indusrial goods manufacture, education services, IT enabled services etc.

Hero Mindmine, the technology based learning solutions provider and training division of Hero Corporate Service Limited, is one of the largest and premier training powerhouses in the country focussed on building BPO/Customer Service Professionals in the sector of Airlines, Automotive, BPO, FMCG, IT, and Pharma. It has alliance with two companies, in order to facilitate the successful training of students and professionals in globally understood Business English:

• DynEd Corporation, which provides quality courseware by combining proven classroom teaching skills with the best of multimedia techniques.






HeroITES, the BPO and Contact Centre solutions provider of Hero Management Service Limited has a strategic alliance with ACS Incorporated, USA, a leading BPO and IT services company. With revenues of US$ 4.35 billion ACS is a Fortune 500 company with more than 50,000 people in nealry 100 locations around the world. With this alliance, HeroITES can provide onshore and nearshore solutions in the customer acquisition and customer interaction segment of the BPO industry. HeroITES and ACS offer a complete range of services to clients from their on-shore, near-shore and off-shore centers across the United States, Canada, Argentina and India. ACS Inc aims at increasing client's prosperity through Customer Care Solutions that exceed industry norms in Service and Value.

Product Engineering Related Alliances

• Hero Global Design is the largest Certified Engineering Provider (CEP) of PTC from India. Hero Global Design's alliance with PTC enables the development of elite corps of engineering professionals, an opportunity to work directly with PTC and its customers and to gain expertise as a Pro/ENGINEER Expert throughout PTC's Worldwide Customer Base. It also enables Hero Global Design to provide high quality Legacy Data Conversion Services.

• Hero Global Design is the exclusive representative of Porsche Design GesmbH (studio) in India.

• Hero Global Design has a business agreement with Target Design, a leading industrial and automobile design company in Germany.