Perodua sees double-digit growth in sales and production in Feb 2023

KUALA LUMPUR: Perodua kickstarted 2023 with a bang and achieved impressive production and sales performance in the first month of the year. Well, here comes the national automaker’s February sales and production figures, contributing significantly to its yearly targets.

The company sold a total of 24,936 units in February with a growth of 16% over the previous month. With that, the automaker’s year-to-date sales tally comes down to 46,385 units, which shows a 33% hike over 34,865 deliveries made in the first two months of 2022.

Speaking about Perodua production in February 2023, the company produced a total of 26,544 units, bringing year-to-date production for the first two months to 51,134 units, which is 32.95% higher year-on-year. 

Factors leading to growth are improved efficiency in terms of production, better financing facilities for the company’s dealers, and greater communications within the ecosystem as well as with customers, says the automaker.

Upon achieving these results, Perodua President and Chief Executive Officer Dato’ Sri Zainal Abidin Ahmad said, “While there are still ongoing challenges with the supply of semiconductor chips, cost increases – among others but despite these challenges, we managed to see double-digit growth in our production and sales, for this we thank our partners for their dedication.”

He further added that the demand for Perodua cars has remained healthy so far and the company is ramping up production to meet that demand.

“As a result, the average waiting period as of 28 February is now between 2.5 months and 8 months. Of course, this timeframe is subject to the model, variant, and colour,” Dato’ Sri Zainal said.

The company will continue to improve its operations within the ecosystem as well as the delivery timing of its customers, given that the current economic situation remains stable. 

“The current focus now is labour stability, especially for the automotive suppliers to ensure that production can be improved. We also hope that the policy makers continue to engage with the ecosystem on future changes in policies that may impact the industry” he said.

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