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Harley-Davidson will reportedly drop the Street 750 from its lineup
Does that explain its sudden price drop?
Harley-Davidson has just reported its second-quarter sales figures and will be revamping its “Rewire” into a more concrete “Hardwire” strategy. The new strategy involves streamlining its planned models by 30 percent and better distribute its investments between the existing models that they consider as “high potential segments”. It will be executed after the end of 2020 and will be carried over until 2025. However, as early as now, it seems that Harley-Davidson is gonna be doing a whole lot of changes, more particularly, with its production facilities in its Bawal, Haryana, factory in India.
It has been reported that a significant number of workers from its factory are being laid off. It should be noted that even before Harley-Davidson released its second-quarter sales numbers, they already had plans of slashing 500 jobs globally and 200 unfilled positions. That brings it to a total of 700 job cuts. The Bawal factory exclusively produces Harley-Davidson’s Street 750 model and now, the Indian media has been speculating about its closure entirely. Rumors have also been circulating saying that its regional managing director, Sajeev Rajasekharan will be transferred to Singapore, thus churning the rumor mill even more.
Harley-Davidson operates by selling either complete built-up (CBU) units or complete knocked-down (CKD) units in India. CBU units are usually imported as a whole while CKD units are assembled in its Bawal factory. This makes the CBU motorcycles generally more expensive than their CKD units. Thus, it seems within Harley-Davidson’s direction to instead stick to selling more of its CBU units over its CKD motorcycles. At this point, no official statement yet has been released by Harley-Davidson about the job cuts from its Bawal factory or the possible discontinuation of the Harley-Davidson Street 750.
It should be noted that just a couple of months ago, a significant price drop was announced over Harley-Davidson’s Street motorcycle lineup. Could this have been a premonition of things to come once they finally start implementing its “Hardwire” strategy after the year ends? We’ll be sure to report any more updates should they come up in the next coming months.
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