Osamu Suzuki, who led Japanese automaker into India, dies at 94 | CNN Business

Reuters  — 

Osamu Suzuki, an ingenious penny pincher who led Japan’s Suzuki Motor for more than four decades and played a key role in turning India into a flourishing auto market, has died aged 94.

He died on December 25 of lymphoma, said the company, which he steered ambitiously, during his time as either chief executive or chairman, out of its primary market of minivehicles.

The inexpensive, boxy, 660-cc cars specific to Japan benefited from generous tax breaks but demanded a stringent reining-in of costs that proved to be a key part of the

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