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India set to become Yamaha’s second-largest market by end-2017

Sumantra B Barooah     calendar24 Jan 2017

India is en route to becoming the Japanese two-wheeler major’s second-largest market by the end of this year, behind Indonesia which is currently No. 1 with sales of 1.45 million units in CY2016.

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