Increase in vehicle population and consumer awareness on aspects such as safety and performance are key drivers for creating opportunities in the fast growing automotive aftermarket business. The aftermarket provides a wide variety of parts of varying qualities and prices for nearly all vehicle makes and models on the road.

The Indian automotive industry has emerged as one of India’s fastest growing, specialized manufacturing sector, and truly a globally competitive one. After sales service has a significant role in this growth, as India is price sensitive market where vehicle life expectancy is much higher than developed nations. Despite a global slowdown, the Indian car market has grown by 12.2% per cent in 2007-08.

Keeping the tremendous potential of Indian Automotive aftermarket and services industry in mind, Confedeartion of Indian Industry (CII) will be organizing  “Auto Parts Pavilion” –It will be the concurrent show with 18th International Engineering & Technology Fair (IETF-2009) from 23-26 February 2009 at BIEC, Bangalore. The Fair provides an excellent opportunity to the automotive aftermarket players in the country as well as in the Asian Region for accessing the rapidly growing Indian automotive aftermarket space.