{"id":42849,"date":"2017-03-20T09:56:25","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T07:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=42849"},"modified":"2017-03-20T09:56:25","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T07:56:25","slug":"indian-manufacturer-eyes-malawi-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/03\/20\/indian-manufacturer-eyes-malawi-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian manufacturer eyes Malawi market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian vehicle manufacturing company, Eicher Motors, has said it has identified Malawi as a potential market for its trucks and buses.<\/p>\n<p>Eicher Motors is a commercial vehicle manufacturer and its origins date back to 1948.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the sidelines of the Malawi-India business meeting in Lilongwe on Friday, Eicher trucks and buses Division Manager for Africa, Vikrant Patnaik, said the growing transport sector in the country provides a huge market opportunity for Eicher.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMalawi market is currently growing. It is a stable economy in Africa and compared to other countries, it seems a very important market for Eicher.<\/p>\n<p>At its current stage, with its improving inflation, it is a prime market for us,\u201d Patnaik said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Patnaik, Eicher trucks and buses are designed for superior performance with better fuel economy, higher payload and faster turnaround.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese trucks have low operating cost and, high reliability leading to higher profits,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian vehicle manufacturing company, Eicher Motors, has said it has identified Malawi as a potential market for its trucks and buses. Eicher Motors is a commercial vehicle manufacturer and its origins date back to 1948. Speaking on the sidelines of the Malawi-India business meeting in Lilongwe on Friday, Eicher trucks and buses Division Manager [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":42854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42855,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42849\/revisions\/42855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}