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<keyword id="132140" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Nissan-India">Nissan India</keyword> on Friday announced expansion of its dealership and service station network with 20 news sales points and 30 <keyword id="10342370" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="new-service-outlets">new service outlets</keyword> besides taking other customer-centric initiatives ahead of the roll out of its B-segment SUV Magnite next month. The expansion is in line with the <keyword id="9832205" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Nissan-Next">Nissan NEXT</keyword> strategy to prioritize and invest in the Indian market for sustainable growth, the company said in a release. The subcompact SUV is scheduled for launch on December 2. In the run-up to the launch of the all-new Nissan Magnite next month, Nissan India has further strengthened customer-centric services with highly-trained channel partners, an end-to-end digital ecosystem and virtual showroom with vehicle configurator, <keyword id="148574" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Nissan-Motor-India">Nissan Motor India</keyword> said in a release. "With India gradually becoming a more strategic base for value-added services, Nissan's new and improved initiatives will underscore our desire to give customers a hassle-free, safe, and satisfying sales and service process that is enhanced by a comprehensive digital ecosystem for discerning customers," said Rakesh Srivastava, MD, Nissan Motor India. While the vehicle configurator provides a seamless exterior and interior experience of all grades, powertrain and feature combinations including "tech pack", the end-to-end e-commerce takes care of the vehicle right from booking to delivery including finance process, the company release said. Besides, the virtual test drive feature allows the customers to take a test drive from home on their personal device, it added. "Nissan India's focus is on improving customers' connectivity by providing a seamless journey through these company-owned platforms. We are adapting and adopting the changes in the marketplace to strengthen Nissan's commitment to the Indian customer on product and service assurances," said Sinan Ozkok, President, Nissan Motor India. Nissan India has also introduced '<keyword id="10341171" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="nissan-express-service">Nissan Express Service</keyword>,' which delivers a quick and comprehensive service experience in just 90-minutes. Nissan will extend the service reach to its customers by conducting "<keyword id="10341173" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="nissan-service-clinics">Nissan Service Clinics</keyword>" in over 100 upcountry locations, it said. SEE ALSO: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/auto/news/checkout-top-electric-cars-price-from-delhi-mumbai-chennai-bengaluru-kolkata/articleshow/79429631.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">From Tata Nexon EV and MG ZS EV to Hyundai Kona Electric — here’s how much top electric cars cost in India</a> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/science/news/astrazeneca-will-likely-re-test-its-covid-19-vaccine-ceo-says-after-admitting-an-error-in-the-first-trial-that-may-have-skewed-results/articleshow/79434619.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink">AstraZeneca will likely retest its COVID-19 vaccine, CEO says after admitting an error in the first trial that may have skewed results</a>

Nissan India expands dealership and service station network ahead of Magnite launch next month

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="10775052" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="winter-storm-uri">Winter Storm Uri</keyword> has snarled business for grocery stores, airlines, and mail carriers across the US.</li><li><keyword id="80487" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="walmart">Walmart</keyword> said it closed more than 500 stores, while Texas-based grocery chain H-E-B modified hours.</li><li><a href="https://about.usps.com/newsroom/service-alerts/residential/welcome.htm">USPS</a>, <a href="https://www.fedex.com/en-us/service-alerts.html#weather">FedEx</a>, and <a href="https://www.ups.com/us/en/service-alerts.page">UPS</a> all announced service disruptions to their websites.</li></ul>Extreme <keyword id="6359992" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="weather">weather</keyword> conditions this week caused businesses to shutter across the country.Cold weather blasts in the Northeast, Midwest, South, which meteorologists have dubbed <a href="https://weather.com/safety/winter/news/2021-02-14-winter-storm-uri-south-midwest-northeast-snow-ice">Winter Storm Uri</a> and <a href="https://weather.com/safety/winter/news/2021-02-14-cross-country-winter-storm-northwest-south-midwest-east">Winter Storm Viola</a>, have caused a major power-grid manager to order <a href="https://www.insider.com/texas-snow-storm-blackouts-states-power-grid-electricity-energy-emergency-2021-2">rolling blackouts</a> in 14 states Monday. <keyword id="15710" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="texas">Texas</keyword> and surrounding areas in the South - which rarely experiences such cold winter weather - bore the brunt of outages as <a href="https://www.insider.com/texas-winter-storm-power-cuts-white-house-emergency-declaration-2021-2">nearly 3 million people</a> were without power due to record low temperatures.Retailers, logistics firms, health clinics, and automakers shut down locations because of outages and other extreme weather risks.<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-closes-500-stores-temporarily-winter-storm-uri-2021-2">Walmart said it closed more than 500 locations</a> due to <keyword id="93159" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="winter-storm">Winter Storm</keyword> Uri. Most store closures impacted states in the South like Texas and Louisiana, according to an <a href="https://walmarttech.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/4e573c79e1224081805165d25b4f33c7">updated map</a>. "Due to winter storms in many areas of the US, we're closing some locations for the safety of our associates and customers," Walmart said in <a href="https://twitter.com/WalmartInc/status/1361387273342885898">a tweet</a> on Monday. Other grocery stores reported closing locations:<ul><li>H-E-B <a href="https://newsroom.heb.com/severe-winter-weather-h-e-b-store-operations-real-time-updates/">modified hours</a> of operation in locations across Texas.</li><li>Kroger either <a href="https://www.kroger.com/i/weather-alerts/store-closures">closed or limited hours</a> in stores around Dallas and Houston.</li><li>Publix modified hours in 93 store locations around Birmingham and Nashville as of <a href="https://www.publix.com/pages/publix-storm-basics/publix-store-status">Tuesday afternoon</a>.</li></ul>The closings caused lines to form outside open grocery stores as residents stock up while they wait out the extreme weather. Snow, chilly winds, and freezing rain are expected to persist through midweek in the Great Plains and Mississippi Valley, according to <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather/knocked-out-texas-millions-face-record-lows-without-power-new-n1257964">NBC</a>.<h2>Extreme weather hit travel and logistics firms in the South </h2><div type="image" title="winter storm 2021" height="682" width="910" msid="81017420" hostid="261"></div>Businesses in the transportation and delivery sectors modified operations to keep customers and employees safe during the winter storm.<a href="https://about.usps.com/newsroom/service-alerts/residential/welcome.htm">USPS</a>, <a href="https://www.fedex.com/en-us/service-alerts.html#weather">FedEx</a>, and <a href="https://www.ups.com/us/en/service-alerts.page">UPS</a> all announced service disruptions to their websites. USPS, for instance, temporarily closed operations in parts of Alabama, Texas, Georgia, and Mississippi, while FedEx suspended Express service in parts of Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, and Louisiana."Significant weather events across the US are impacting the UPS Network," the company announced on Tuesday. "Although your location may not be impacted by weather, the movement of packages in the network may be impacted by weather conditions in other areas." GM, meanwhile, told Insider certain plants in Texas, Tennessee, Indiana, and Kentucky temporarily halted production due to "significant winter weather." Ford told <a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/2021/02/15/winter-storm-leads-production-disruptions-gm-ford-plants/6754634002/">The Detroit News</a> they closed plants in Missouri.A Nissan spokesperson told <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/gm-ford-toyota-nissan-shut-170553903.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAFTSWUXGsYzVnOBoP8YJxAY1te5taKQVH-p5nV3OnUYq_x93KORPvD7E6ApR828eTTcVUzsywdYYPJWi4MD0kZB65EQjDyiNzEcoqpSmFeNlMF4RIbHHC6oA99KvWMzg-fDGtIRCVPJJwLxt8_IetPM3EHzCrNtcmOYc1h4B8o4p1h4B8o4p">The Detroit Free Press</a> the automaker temporarily suspended production at certain Tennessee and Mississippi plants, while Toyota told the paper it opted to shut down production in Texas, Kentucky, Indiana, and West Virginia.Air transportation came to a halt in some areas after American, Southwest, and other airlines cancelled 800 flights Tuesday at Dallas Fort Worth Airport, <a href="https://www.dallasnews.com/business/airlines/2021/02/16/near-zero-temps-freeze-flights-again-at-dfw-airport-dallas-love-field/">The Dallas News</a> reported.<a href="https://www.aa.com/i18n/travel-info/travel-alerts.jsp">American Airlines</a> announced travel alerts in dozens of other locations, including Washington, Cleveland, and Albany, due to storms Viola and Uri.<div type="image" title="winter storm uri" height="2685" width="3580" msid="81017426" hostid="261"></div><h2>Several states halted COVID-19 clinics and vaccinations due to the storms</h2>Vaccination sites across Texas, Missouri, Alabama, and Michigan closed due to inclement weather. Ascension Providence in Waco, Texas, announced the health system would close vaccine clinics through Wednesday, <a href="https://www.kwtx.com/2021/02/16/waco-hospitals-forced-to-manage-extreme-weather-during-pandemic/">KWTX reported</a>, and Dallas-based Baylor Scott &amp; White <a href="https://www.kwtx.com/2021/02/16/waco-hospitals-forced-to-manage-extreme-weather-during-pandemic/">closed</a> all drive-through COVID-19 testing sites.In West Virginia, the Cabell-Huntington Health Department closed its main building and postponed vaccine services due to inclement weather, per its <a href="https://cabellhealth.org/">website</a>.Nearly 40 million people in the US have received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine, according to the <a href="https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention</a>.

Extreme weather across the US is snarling operations for companies including Walmart, GM, and FedEx

<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image">ReutersA woman drives a car in <keyword id="50996" type="COUNTRY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Saudi-Arabia">Saudi Arabia</keyword> October 22, 2013. A conservative Saudi Arabian cleric has said women who drive risk damaging their ovaries and bearing children with clinical problems, countering activists who are trying to end the Islamic kingdom's male-only driving rules.</div></div></div>Saudis are internationally renowned for their lavish lifestyles and their taste for luxury goods. Yet in recent years the country has also seen an increasing demand for less expensive goods. In the auto sector in particular, cheaper Chinese car brands are now posing a serious threat to established carmakers from Japan, Korea &amp; the US.
Most prominent of these is Geely, the owner of Sweden's Volvo Cars and one of China's biggest carmakers. With four own-brand models in its portfolio (the LC Panda, GX2, EC7 &amp; EC8), Geely sold 13,000 units in Saudi Arabia in 2012, earning a market share of 1.7%. Now with the addition of Emgrand X7 SUV model, the brand is confident it can top 2%.
Geely's success is partly down to its choice of partner, after it teamed up with experienced Saudi dealer Haji Hussein &amp; Alireza Group. The latter has followed its success by securing the rights to sell another Chinese brand, this time a commercial vehicle maker. Maxus offers two variants of its V80 model: one a 15-seater passenger van and the other a cargo van. Both vehicles come with 2.5L diesel turbocharged engine with direct fuel injection system.
Great Wall, another Chinese carmaker, is also making inroads, bringing in its medium weight pick-ups to the market. Meanwhile JAC Motors is racking up market share, thanks to its dealers in Saudi Arabia, Al-Jedaie Motors (owned by Al-Jedaie Group).
Price is right
The Saudi auto market is used to waves of new competitors. Until recently, the market was dominated by Japanese brands, which had moved in during the 1980s to take sales off their US and European rivals. Toyota now holds a 40% market share, followed by Nissan on 9.5% share. US and European brands make up 6.5% and 18% respectively.
Only a few years ago, however, South Korean automotive brands, notably Hyundai and its sister company Kia, started capturing market share for both passenger car range and, to a lesser extent, commercial vehicles. Helped by a reputation of value for money, South Korea has now become the second highest source of car imports in Saudi Arabia, although its share is now under threat fro the Chinese.
The main attraction of Chinese cars, in Saudi Arabia as elsewhere, is price. Rising inflation has made the Saudi middle class far more careful with their money, and keen to snap up a new car with decent features and usually backed by a good service and maintenance plan. The low-cost car market is also helped by a ban on imports of second-hand cars over five years old. Chinese cars are particularly popular with expatriate buyers, fleet buyers and as a second car for school runs.
Demand could get an extra fillip if Saudi women ever gain the right to drive. Even without that, <keyword id="425741" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="The-Economist">the Economist</keyword> Intelligence Unit expects sales to rise by around 6.5% a year, reaching 1m by 2017. Chinese carmakers should continue to profit from that.
Nevertheless, overhauling Toyota's market lead will not be easy. The Japanese carmaker is backed by the by far the biggest local distributor, the giant Abdul Latif Jameel, which has the clout to offer great financing deals. The Chinese will also have to cope with the launch of a joint Saudi-South Korean project to build low-cost cars in the kingdom.
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